Humor styles of primary school teachers

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine humor styles of primary school teachers. With the study, humor styles of teachers and differences in between according to certain variables were determined. The sample of the survey model study consists of 279 primary school teachers in the province of Kutahya in Turkey. The data of the research were gathered with "Humor Style Questionnaire". Data were analyzed by utilizing descriptive statistics, t-tests and variance analyses. Results of the study showed that the primary school teachers had an affiliative humor style. Humor styles of primary school teachers are closer to "affiliative humor style", followed by self-enhancing, aggressive humor and self-defeating humor styles. There are significant differences between the humor styles of school teachers about the aggressive and self-defeating humor styles to the gender and branch. However, there was no significant difference in seniority and age.