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The document presents the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), an instrument to measure four styles of humor: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. Each style is measured through 8 items, for a total of 32 in the questionnaire. Cut-off points are provided for each style indicating whether it is high or low, and its association with constructs such as well-being, gender, and culture.
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The document presents the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), an instrument to measure four styles of humor: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. Each style is measured through 8 items, for a total of 32 in the questionnaire. Cut-off points are provided for each style indicating whether it is high or low, and its association with constructs such as well-being, gender, and culture.
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Psychology Bulletin, No.
102, July 2011
Annex I
Spanish version of the HSQ
(Martin et al, 1986 by Cayssials and Pérez, 2005)
People experience and express humor in different ways.
Below you will find a list of statements that describe different
There are ways in which humor can be experienced.
Please read each statement carefully and indicate the degree
to your liking or displeasure. Be as honest as possible and as objective as possible.
that can.
Use the following scale: totally disagree=1, moderate-
mente en desacuerdo= 2, ligeramente en desacuerdo=3, ni de acuerdo
ni en desacuerdo=4, ligeramente de acuerdo=5, moderadamente de
acuerdo=6, totalmente de acuerdo=7.
T M L A L M T
D D D D A A A
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1. Usualmente no me río o bromeo mucho con otras perso-
nas.
2. If I feel depressed, I can lift my spirits with
humor.
If someone makes a mistake, I will hold it against them for a long time.
4. I let people laugh at me or have fun at my expense.
I love mine more than I should.
I don't have to try very hard to make them laugh.
I see myself as someone who is naturally humorous.
6. Even when I'm alone, I usually entertain myself with the absurdities of the
life.
7. La gente nunca se ofende o se siente herida por mi sentido
of humor.
I often find myself lowering my standards if it makes my fami-
read or friends laugh.
I rarely make others laugh by telling funny stories.
about me.
10. If I feel upset or sad, I usually try to think
Be sarcastic about the situation to feel better.
11. When I tell jokes or funny things, in general, I don't...
it matters how people take it.
12. I often try to please people or I try to make them...
they accept me more by saying funny things about my weak-
data, errors or faults.
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I laugh and joke a lot with my closest friends.
My humorous view of life protects me from excess.
discomfort and discouragement about things.
15. In general, I don't like when people use humor.
to criticize or belittle someone.
I don't usually say funny things to belittle myself.
17. I usually don't like to tell jokes or entertain the
others.
18. If I find myself alone and I feel sad, I make an effort
to cheer myself up thinking about something fun.
19. Sometimes I think of something that is so funny that I can't
to be silent, even if that is not appropriate to the situation.
20. I often am the first to belittle myself when I am
telling jokes or trying to be funny.
I enjoy making people laugh.
If I feel sad or upset, I often lose my sense.
of humor.
23. I never participate when others are being laughed at, even though everyone does.
my friends are doing it.
24. When I am among friends or family, often
I see myself as the only one who gets teased or joked about.
I usually don't joke with my friends
26. My experience tells me that thinking about the aspects
often a way to find humor in a situation
muy efectiva de afrontar los problemas.
27. If I don't like someone, I often use humor to
to molest or belittle him.
28. If I am having problems or not feeling happy, I ...
I jokingly cover it up, so my closest friends...
that they do not know how I really feel.
29. In general, I can't think of funny things to
to tell other people.
30 I don't need to be with other people to have fun. With
I can often find things to laugh at even if I'm
alone.
31. Although something is very funny to me, I will try not to
laughing or joking about it, if someone could end up offending
course.
32. Letting others laugh at me is the way to maintain
to my friends and family of good humor.
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The Humor Sense Questionnaire has 32 items, which measure how
three styles of sense of humor (through eight items for each of these)
style). These styles are the Affiliative, Self-assertive, Aggressive, and Self-
disqualification. Participants indicate the degree to which they agree or in
disagreement with different statements about their sense of humor on a scale
Likert type of seven points, with 1: Completely disagree and 7: Com-
completely agree.
In its correction, items 1, 7, 9, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 25, 29 must be reversed.
31 (7 times 1, 6 times 2, 5 times 3, 3 times 5, 2 times 6 and 1 times 7).
The items corresponding to the four styles of humor and the pun-
the reference cutoff tos are detailed below:
Affiliative: items 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, and 29. If scoring 52 or more, it indicates high mood.
affiliative, associated with hedonic and eudaimonic Well-being, to the female sex and to cultu-
individualists. If it scores 40 or less, it has low affiliative humor, more typical of
collectivist cultures and linked to lower well-being.
Self-affirmation: Items 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, and 30. If you score 42 or more, you have
high humor of self-affirmation, associated with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being
Optimism, to masculinity or psychological instrumentality, to the male sex and to
individualistic cultures. If you score 30 or less, you have a low tendency to self-aggrandize.
more typical of collectivist cultures, and linked to lower well-being. This style is
the one most strongly associated with well-being.
Aggressive: 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, and 31. If it scores 42 or more, it has high mood.
aggressive, associated with Neuroticism but not with Well-being. It is also associated with low
psychological expressiveness, to the male sex and to individualistic and post-mate cultures
realists. If it scores 30 or less, it has low aggressive mood, more typical of cultures.
collectivists and hierarchical. This style of humor is not associated with well-being.
Self-disqualification: Items 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, and 32. If you score 30 or more.
has a high sense of self-deprecating humor, associated with hedonic distress and eudaimonia
with optimism and egalitarian cultures. If you score 20 or less, you have low mood.
self-diminishment, more typical of hierarchical cultures, and linked to greater
well-being. This style is the one most strongly associated with well-being, in a way
negative.
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