Humor Style and Motor Skills: Understanding Vulnerability to Bullying
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Plenty, Stephanie
Bejerot, Susanne
Eriksson, Kimmo
Abstract / Description
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of humor style and motor skills in vulnerability to bullying. 729 adults responded to the Humor Style Questionnaire (HSQ) and items retrospectively addressing their motor skills and bullying experiences during childhood. Consistent with recent research, poorer motor skills were associated with a greater extent of having been bullied. An association between stronger motor skills and affiliative humor was found, lending support to a shared biological basis theory underlying social and motor competency processes. Most importantly, being bullied was associated with higher self-defeating humor and lower affiliative humor. This supports earlier theoretical work by Klein and Kuiper (2006) and highlights the role that humor styles play in social interactions that can promote positive peer acceptance and wellbeing.
Keyword(s)
bullying HSQ humor styles motor skills peer acceptancePersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2014-08-13
Journal title
Europe's Journal of Psychology
Volume
10
Issue
3
Page numbers
480–491
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Plenty, S., Bejerot, S., & Eriksson, K. (2014). Humor Style and Motor Skills: Understanding Vulnerability to Bullying. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 10(3), 480–491. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i3.749
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Plenty, Stephanie
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Bejerot, Susanne
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Eriksson, Kimmo
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Date of first publication2014-08-13
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Abstract / DescriptionThe purpose of this study was to examine the role of humor style and motor skills in vulnerability to bullying. 729 adults responded to the Humor Style Questionnaire (HSQ) and items retrospectively addressing their motor skills and bullying experiences during childhood. Consistent with recent research, poorer motor skills were associated with a greater extent of having been bullied. An association between stronger motor skills and affiliative humor was found, lending support to a shared biological basis theory underlying social and motor competency processes. Most importantly, being bullied was associated with higher self-defeating humor and lower affiliative humor. This supports earlier theoretical work by Klein and Kuiper (2006) and highlights the role that humor styles play in social interactions that can promote positive peer acceptance and wellbeing.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationPlenty, S., Bejerot, S., & Eriksson, K. (2014). Humor Style and Motor Skills: Understanding Vulnerability to Bullying. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 10(3), 480–491. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v10i3.749
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ISSN1841-0413
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/904
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1096
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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.v10i3.749
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Keyword(s)bullyingen_US
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Keyword(s)HSQen_US
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Keyword(s)humor stylesen_US
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Keyword(s)motor skillsen_US
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Keyword(s)peer acceptanceen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleHumor Style and Motor Skills: Understanding Vulnerability to Bullyingen_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 numbers480–491
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Volume10
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