Jorge Torres-Marín, Christopher Marcin Kowalski, Chee-Seng Tan, Laura Martínez-Buelvas, Emrah Özsoy, Jens Lange, Jan Crusius, Ognjen Riđić, Georg Krammer, Ginés Navarro-Carrillo, Natalia Pylat, Marija Branković, Marta Doroszuk, Henrietta Bolló, Emira Kozarević, Gert J. Kruger, Rahkman Ardi, Maria Magdalena Kwiatkowska, Dzintra Iliško, Samuel Lincoln Bezerra Lins, Violeta Enea, Sibele Dias de Aquino, Razieh Chegeni, Agim Mamuti, Julie Aitken Schermer, Dženan Skelić, Anna Wlodarczyk, Thi Khanh Ha Truong, Joonha Park, Osman Uslu, Radosław Rogoza, Tatiana Volkodav, Kadi Liik, Eva Papazova, Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, Tomislav Jukić, Benjamin Mrkušić, Adil Kurtic, Goran Riđić, Sadia Malik, and Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação
Responses to a measure of the four humor styles of affiliative, aggressive, self-enhancing, and self-defeating from the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(1), 48–75, 2003) were collected from individuals (N = 8361) in 28 countries encompassing 21 different languages. The purpose of this global collaboration was to examine both differences and similarities of humor styles across nations at the descriptive level. Across the countries, typically the highest scores were for the affiliative humor style. When each humor style was examined, some country samples demonstrated differences in mean scores. For example, the samples from Hungary, Indonesia, South Africa, and Serbia had high self-enhancing scores and Japan scored the lowest. In contrast to mean differences, almost all of the countries demonstrated positive inter-scale correlations, similar sex differences, and similar correlations with age, suggesting more similarities than differences. As discussed, some of the samples had low internal consistency values and poorly fitting factor structures for the humor style scales, suggesting that those results should be interpreted with caution. © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. National Foundation for Science and Technology Development, NAFOSTED Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation: 0101/DIA/2017/46 National Foundation for Science and Technology Development, NAFOSTED 501.01-2016.02