The relationship between humor styles and forgiveness
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Hampes, William
Abstract / Description
Research has shown that a factor in a victim’s forgiveness of an offender is the victim’s ability to make more positive, or at least less negative, attributions of the offender’s behavior and that perspective-taking can be a factor in facilitating that process. Self-enhancing humor has been found to be positively correlated with perspective-taking empathy and aggressive humor found to be negatively correlated with perspective-taking empathy. Therefore it was predicted that self-enhancing humor would be positively correlated with forgiveness and aggressive humor negatively correlated with forgiveness. The Humor Styles Questionnaire, the Absence of Negative and Presence of Positive subscales of the Forgiveness Scale, and the Forgiveness Likelihood Scale were administered to 112 college undergraduates. Self-enhancing humor was significantly and positively correlated with all of the forgiveness measures, aggressive humor and self-defeating humor were significantly and negatively correlated with some of the forgiveness measures and affiliative humor was not significantly correlated with any of the forgiveness measures. The results were interpreted in terms of previous findings for humor styles, perspective-taking empathy, depression, self-esteem and anxiety. Future research involving the extent to which other personality variables, such as perspective-taking empathy, mediate the relationship between self-enhancing humor and forgiveness was suggested.
Keyword(s)
affiliative humor self-enhancing humor aggressive humor self-defeating humor and forgivenessPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2016-08-19
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
12
Issue
3
Page numbers
338–347
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Citation
Hampes, W. (2016). The relationship between humor styles and forgiveness. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(3), 338–347. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1012
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Hampes, William
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Date of first publication2016-08-19
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Abstract / DescriptionResearch has shown that a factor in a victim’s forgiveness of an offender is the victim’s ability to make more positive, or at least less negative, attributions of the offender’s behavior and that perspective-taking can be a factor in facilitating that process. Self-enhancing humor has been found to be positively correlated with perspective-taking empathy and aggressive humor found to be negatively correlated with perspective-taking empathy. Therefore it was predicted that self-enhancing humor would be positively correlated with forgiveness and aggressive humor negatively correlated with forgiveness. The Humor Styles Questionnaire, the Absence of Negative and Presence of Positive subscales of the Forgiveness Scale, and the Forgiveness Likelihood Scale were administered to 112 college undergraduates. Self-enhancing humor was significantly and positively correlated with all of the forgiveness measures, aggressive humor and self-defeating humor were significantly and negatively correlated with some of the forgiveness measures and affiliative humor was not significantly correlated with any of the forgiveness measures. The results were interpreted in terms of previous findings for humor styles, perspective-taking empathy, depression, self-esteem and anxiety. Future research involving the extent to which other personality variables, such as perspective-taking empathy, mediate the relationship between self-enhancing humor and forgiveness was suggested.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationHampes, W. (2016). The relationship between humor styles and forgiveness. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 12(3), 338–347. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1012
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1005
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1197
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1012
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Keyword(s)affiliative humoren_US
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Keyword(s)self-enhancing humoren_US
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Keyword(s)aggressive humoren_US
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Keyword(s)self-defeating humoren_US
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Keyword(s)and forgivenessen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleThe relationship between humor styles and forgivenessen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue3
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Journal titleEurope's Journal of Psychology
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Page numbers338–347
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Volume12
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Visible tag(s)Version of Record