Investigating the humor styles of teachers who work in secondary education schools according to their level of learned resourcefulness and their gender

In this research it was investigated that whether the humor styles ofteachers (self-enhancing humor, affiliative humor, aggressive humor and self-defeating humor) who work in secondary education schools show difference ornot according to their level of learned resourcefulness and their gender. In 2004/ 2005 education year, total 606 teachers that 295 of them were males and and311 females who work in Seyhan and Yüreğir which are the towns of Adanawere included in the concept of the investigation.The data about the humor styles of teachers was obtained by using?Rosenbaum?s Self-Control Schedule? improved by Rosenbaum (1980) andtranslated into Turkish by Siva and Dağ (1991) and the data about the level oflearned resourcefulness of teachers was obtained by using ?Humor StylesQuestionnaire?; improved by Martin, Puhlik-Doris, Larsen, Grey And Weir(2003) and translated into Turkish by Yerlikaya (2003). Data about the othervariables was obtained with ?Personel Information Form?.Multivariate analysis of variance was applied in the analysis ofdata. The error portion in the research was accepted as .05.The obtained findings can be summarized as in the following;According to the obtained findings, It was seen that there was asignificant difference on all scores of humor styles for the level of learnedresourcefulness of teachers who work in secondary education. For the aspect oflearned resourcefulness, according to the results of Scheffe test that was carriedout to examine the reason of the differences between the groups, the scores ofteachers who had avarage and high level of learned resourcefulness for theirstyle of self-enhancing humor, affiliative humor, aggressive humor and self-defeating humor were higher than the teachers who had low level of learnedresourcefulness. Furthermore, when the main affect of gender as anindependent variable was examined on the scores of humor styles, it was seenthat the main affect of this variable made no significant difference and besides,common affect of learned resourcefulness and gender was not meaningful onthe scores of humor styles.The obtained findings in this investigation were interpreted together withthe prestudies and were criticized by associating with the area of psychologicalcounselling and guidance. In addition, various suggestions took place inconclusion part in order for the investigators interested in the subject to forman opinion.Key Words: Humor Styles, Learned Resourcefulness, Gender.