Personality and Individual Differences ( IF 3.950 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-02 , DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111093 Paul J. Silvia 1 , Rebekah M. Rodriguez 1 , Maciej Karwowski 2
Although humor is a universal feature of human communication, people vary widely in how they create and use humor. Guided by a broader model of creative self-beliefs, we developed the Humor Efficacy and Identity Short Scales (HEISS), a pair of 4-item scales measuring humor self-efficacy (“I can” beliefs reflecting confidence about one's ability to be funny) and humor identity (“I am” beliefs reflecting the centrality of humor ability to one's self-concept). Using a large sample of English speakers (n = 1842), an item response theory analysis found a suitable range of item difficulty, good item discrimination, and essentially zero gender-based differential item functioning. Three follow-up samples with English (n = 304, n = 400) and Polish (n = 385) speakers found conceptually consistent relationships with humor backgrounds and experiences (e.g., taking classes and holding jobs involving humor), with Big 5 personality traits, and with humor styles and playfulness. Taken together, these scales show promise for research on people's humor self-concepts and for studies of gendered aspects of humor use, creation, and appreciation.
中文翻译:
有趣的自我:幽默效能和身份短量表 (HEISS) 的发展
虽然幽默是人类交流的普遍特征,但人们在创造和使用幽默的方式上差异很大。在更广泛的创造性自我信念模型的指导下,我们开发了幽默效能和身份短量表 (HEISS),这是一对测量幽默自我效能感的 4 项量表(“我能”信念反映了对自己的幽默能力的信心) ) 和幽默身份(“我是”信念反映了幽默能力对一个人的自我概念的核心地位)。使用大量英语使用者样本 ( n = 1842),项目反应理论分析发现了合适的项目难度范围、良好的项目辨别力和基本为零的基于性别的差异项目功能。三个后续样本,英语(n = 304,n = 400)和波兰语(n = 385) 演讲者发现与幽默背景和经历(例如,上课和从事涉及幽默的工作)、Big 5 人格特质以及幽默风格和趣味性在概念上一致的关系。综上所述,这些量表有望用于研究人们的幽默自我概念以及研究幽默使用、创作和欣赏的性别方面。