Examining the humor styles of high school students with regard to some variables

The aim of this study is to present the humor styles of high school students with regard to some variables. The universe of this research consists of 876 students, and its sample consists of 704 students. The Personal Information Form and the Humor Styles Scale (HSS) developed by Martin et al. (2003) and adapted to Turkish by Yerlikaya (2007) and consisting of 4 sub-dimensions were used as data collection tools. Since the distribution of the data did not show normality, nonparametric tests were applied. The Mann Whitney U test was used for the significance of the difference between the mean of the two variables, and the Kruskal Wallis test was used to evaluate the significance of the difference when there were more than two independent variables. The Mann Whitney U test was used to compare the groups, when the independent variables were more than two and there was a significant difference. The level of significance in the analyzes was determined as p<0.05. In the study, a statistically significant difference was found in favor of women in offensive humor (p<0.001) and self-destructive humor (p<0.01) according to gender variable. A statistically significant difference was found in favor of subclasses in self-enhancing humor (p<0.05) according to the class variable. According to the variable of being a licensed athlete or not, a statistically significant difference was found in favor of non-athletes in self-enhancing humor (p<0.05). A statistically significant difference was found in participatory humor (p<0.001) in favor of those with higher education levels, according to the mother's educational status variable. A statistical difference was found in participatory humor (p<0.01) in favor of those with higher education levels according to father's education level. According to the school types variable, a statistical difference was found in participatory humor (p<0.001) and self-enhancing humor (p<0.05) in favor of Science High School; against BMTAL in offensive humor (p<0.001) and against BMTAL and BAAL in self-destructive humor (p<0.001). As a result of the findings, it would be beneficial to present the variables that affect the humor styles of the students and the negative factors affecting these variables by examining them in depth.