Investigation on relationship between humor styles and self-compassion levels

The purpose of this study is to predict and determine the effects of gender, grade, living environment, average income and sibling numbers on adolescent humor style and self compassion. The research universe is consist of Yildiz Technical University students selected arbitrarily from different faculties between the ages of 17-21 in 2016-2017 season. Student selection is done by cluster sampling. The composition of 258 students are as follows; (64%) 174 female and (33%) 84 male individuals. In order to determine the self compassion scores of the students, Self-compassion Scale (Deniz, Sümer and Kesici, 2008), humor style score (Yerlikaya,2003) were employed. The results of the research analyzed by the SPSS WINDOWS programme. Datas were analyzed by t test, ANOVA, Tukey, regression. The result indicated that there was not a significant differentiation between gender and grade variable. The findings of adolescent's living environment variable does not lead to a significant differenciation between self-defeating humor, self-enhancing humor and aggressive humor but indicates a significant differenciation in affiliative humor. Average income variable did not come up with a significant differenciation between aggressive and self-defeating humor but gave a significant differenciation in between affiliative and self-enhancing humor. Sibling numbers variable come up with a significant differenciation in affiliative humor and there was no significant differenciation on self compassion. A positive relation between self compassion and affiliative humor and self compassion and self-enhancing humor was found. A negative reletion between self compassion and self-defeating humor was found. No significant relation between self compassion and aggressive humor was found.