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Najwa Y El Yahfoufi

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Psychometric Comparisons of Benevolent and Corrective Humor across 22 Countries: The Virtue Gap in Humor Goes International

2018

Recently, two instances of virtue-related humor: benevolent and corrective, have been introduced. Benevolent humor treats human weaknesses and wrongdoings benevolently, while corrective humor aims at correcting and bettering them. Twelve marker items for benevolent and corrective humor (BenCor) were developed, and it was demonstrated that they fill the gap between humor as temperament and virtue. The present study investigates responses to the BenCor from 25 samples in 22 countries (overall N = 7, 226). The psychometric properties of the BenCor were found to be sufficient in most of the samples, including internal consistency, unidimensionality, and factorial validity. Importantly, benevole…

H Social Sciences (General)genetic structures10093 Institute of Psychologyhumorlcsh:BF1-990humor ; virtue ; cross-cultural comparisons ; measurement invariance ; positive psychologypositive psychology3200 General Psychologycross-cultural comparisonseye diseasesDoktoratPsych Erstautormeasurement invariancelcsh:Psychologyfluids and secretions/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200Psychologysense organs150 PsychologyPsychology(all)virtueOriginal Research
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