Let a smile be your umbrella : Humorstilar, personlighet och kön

Sammanfattning: Abstract The main aim of this study was to investigate if four humour styles, affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating humour can be related to all five dimensions of the Big Five Factor Model of personality and study if gender has any influence on those relation-ships. A survey questionnaire was distributed among 72 individuals from Kalmar County, in the South-east of Sweden. There were 42 women and 30 men. A humour test questionnaire, Humour Scale Questionnaire (HSQ), with 32 items was used and the Big Five Factor test with 40 items was used for personality test. The results showed that men have a more aggressive humour than women and that the older we get the less affiliative and self-enhancing humour we have. There was no correlation between age and defeat humour style. When it comes to personality it turned out that women are more goal oriented and more open as well as nicer than men. Women are also more extrovert and they have a tendency to feel unpleasant emo-tions more easily than men.