TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric Comparisons of Benevolent and Corrective Humor across 22 Countries
T2 - Humor and laughter, playfulness and cheerfulness: Upsides and downsides to a life of lightness
AU - Heintz, Sonja
AU - Ruch, Willibald
AU - Platt, Tracey
AU - Pang, Dandan
AU - Carretero-Dios, Hugo
AU - Dionigi, Alberto
AU - Gutiérrez, Catalina Argüello
AU - Brdar, Ingrid
AU - Brzozowska, Dorota
AU - Chen, Hsueh Chih
AU - Chlopicki, Wladyslaw
AU - Collins, Matthew
AU - Durka, Róbert
AU - El Yahfoufi, Najwa Y.
AU - Quiroga-Garza, Angélica
AU - Isler, Robert B.
AU - Mendiburo-Seguel, Andrés
AU - Ramis, Tamil Selvan
AU - Saglam, Betül
AU - Shcherbakova, Olga V.
AU - Singh, Kamlesh
AU - Stokenberga, Ieva
AU - Wong, Peter S.O.
AU - Torres-Marín, Jorge
PY - 2019/4/9
Y1 - 2019/4/9
N2 - samples in 22 countries (overall N = 7,226). The psychometric properties of the BenCor were found to be sufficient in most of the samples, including internal consistency, unidimensionality, and factorial validity. Importantly, benevolent and corrective humor were clearly established as two positively related, yet distinct dimensions of virtue-related humor. Metric measurement invariance was supported across the 25 samples, and scalar invariance was supported across six age groups (from 18 to 50+ years) and across gender. Comparisons of samples within and between four countries (Malaysia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the UK) showed that the item profiles were more similar within than between countries, though some evidence for regional differences was also found. This study thus supported, for the first time, the suitability of the 12 marker items of benevolent and corrective humor in different countries, enabling a cumulative cross-cultural research and eventually applications of humor aiming at the good.
AB - samples in 22 countries (overall N = 7,226). The psychometric properties of the BenCor were found to be sufficient in most of the samples, including internal consistency, unidimensionality, and factorial validity. Importantly, benevolent and corrective humor were clearly established as two positively related, yet distinct dimensions of virtue-related humor. Metric measurement invariance was supported across the 25 samples, and scalar invariance was supported across six age groups (from 18 to 50+ years) and across gender. Comparisons of samples within and between four countries (Malaysia, Switzerland, Turkey, and the UK) showed that the item profiles were more similar within than between countries, though some evidence for regional differences was also found. This study thus supported, for the first time, the suitability of the 12 marker items of benevolent and corrective humor in different countries, enabling a cumulative cross-cultural research and eventually applications of humor aiming at the good.
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U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00730
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00730
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 31024386
VL - 10
SP - 107
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
IS - APR
M1 - 730
ER -