Martin’s (2003) Humor Styles Questionnaire measures four distinct styles of humor usage. However, examining these humor styles individually fails to account for the combination with which they are used as well as how these combinations may affect the relationship between humor and personality. The present study examined relationships of the humor styles, both individually and in combination, with a broad array of maladaptive personality traits. The incremental validity of accounting for the combinations with which the humor styles are used was examined through the use of hierarchical multiple regressions. Results demonstrated that the humor styles, both individually and in combination, exhibited strong relationships with the measured personality traits, and the directions of these relationships supported the conceptualization of the humor styles as adaptive versus maladaptive. Accounting for combinations of humor style use accounted for a statistically significant amount of variance above and beyond that explained by the humor styles individually for 11 of the 33 personality traits measures. Further, results of the present study suggest that the introduction of adaptive humor use for individuals who utilize primarily maladaptive humor can serve to cancel out the negative effects of maladaptive humor. Therefore, the present study demonstrates that adaptive humor use may serve as a buffer against the negative effects of maladaptive humor use.
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Accounting for combinations of humor style use accounted for a statistically significant amount of variance above and beyond that explained by the humor styles individually for 11 of the 33 personality traits measures. Further, results of the present study suggest that the introduction of adaptive humor use for individuals who utilize primarily maladaptive humor can serve to cancel out the negative effects of maladaptive humor. Therefore, the present study demonstrates that adaptive humor use may serve as a buffer against the negative effects of maladaptive humor use.</p>","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Finn, Joseph Robert"],"institution":null,"degree_name":"Master of Arts (MA)","degree_level":"Masters Thesis","degree_discipline":"Psychology","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Randolph Arnau","Bradley Green","Richard Mohn"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2015,"date_issued":"2015-05-01T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2015-05-01T07:00:00Z","updated_at":"2026-07-24T05:44:34Z","subjects":["Humor","Humor Types","Latent Profile Analysis","Humor Styles","Canonical Correlation","Applied Behavior Analysis","Clinical Psychology","Experimental Analysis of Behavior","Personality and Social Contexts"],"languages":[],"rights":[],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/113","outbound_label":"Repository record","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["Randolph Arnau","Bradley Green","Richard Mohn"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Finn, Joseph Robert"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date.available","label":"Dc Date Available","values":["2015-03-25T07:00:00Z"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Psychology"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_level","label":"Degree Level","values":["Masters Thesis"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["Master of Arts (MA)"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["Humor","Humor Types","Latent Profile Analysis","Humor Styles","Canonical Correlation","Applied Behavior Analysis","Clinical Psychology","Experimental Analysis of Behavior","Personality and Social Contexts"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/113"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description.abstract","label":"Abstract","values":["Martin’s (2003) Humor Styles Questionnaire measures four distinct styles of humor usage. 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Accounting for combinations of humor style use accounted for a statistically significant amount of variance above and beyond that explained by the humor styles individually for 11 of the 33 personality traits measures. Further, results of the present study suggest that the introduction of adaptive humor use for individuals who utilize primarily maladaptive humor can serve to cancel out the negative effects of maladaptive humor. Therefore, the present study demonstrates that adaptive humor use may serve as a buffer against the negative effects of maladaptive humor use.
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