Investigation of the relationship between humor styles and self perception of 4th grade primary school students (Afyonkarahisar of sample)

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between self-perception and the humor styles of elementary school fourth grade students. This study was carried out in 2019-2020 school year with 525 fourth grade students (268 females, 51 %; 257 males, 49 %) in Afyonkarahisar city center. In this study, relational screening method of general survey model, which is a quantitative research method is used. Data of the study collected through "Humor Style Questionnaire for Young Children" (HSQ-Y) and "Self Perception Profile for Children" (SPPC). The findings of the study revealed that "affiliative humor style", which is a sub-dimension of humor styles questionnaire, had a positive and significant relationship with all sub-dimensions of self-perception profile for children, and "self-enhancing humor style" with the exception of "social acceptance" sub-dimension. In the study, it was also seen that "aggressive humor style" was negatively related to "educational competence", "behavioral management", "social acceptance" "general self-worth" sub-dimensions, and "self-defeating humor style" was negatively related to "athletic competence" sub-dimensions.