humor_styles

34,272 responses from 1,071 respondents to 32 items.

About this table

DescriptionAnswers to the Humor Styles Questionnaire
ReferenceMartin, R. A., Puhlik-Doris, P., Larsen, G., Gray, J., & Weir, K. Humor Styles Questionnaire [dataset and codebook]. http://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/HSQ.zip///Martin, R. A., Puhlik-Doris, P., Larsen, G., Gray, J., & Weir, K. (2003). Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 48-75.
DOI10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00534-2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttp://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/

Size and shape

Responses34,272
Respondents1,071
Items32
Response categories5
Responses per respondent32
Responses per item1,071
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleEducational
construct typePersonality
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng
construct nameHumor Styles Questionnaire

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentHumor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ)
Mean words per item16.438
Mean characters per item84.281
Mean characters per response17
Flesch-Kincaid grade level7.848

Columns

ageiditemresp

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python:

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("humor_styles")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("humor_styles")

Version and provenance

IRW versionv393
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse v53.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/4g08-xt41
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv53.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v23.0