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

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, humor_styles.R. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).made in the build script
itemIRW standard Item identifier.item_id
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Other columns
ageNot documented Not documented by the IRW; see the source’s codebook.made in the build script

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the source’s codebook, codebook.txt (inside HSQ.zip).

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# 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")

How to cite

@article{Martin_2003, title={Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychological well-being: Development of the Humor Styles Questionnaire}, volume={37}, ISSN={0092-6566}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00534-2}, DOI={10.1016/s0092-6566(02)00534-2}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Research in Personality}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Martin, Rod A. and Puhlik-Doris, Patricia and Larsen, Gwen and Gray, Jeanette and Weir, Kelly}, year={2003}, month=feb, pages={48–75} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv566
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse v70.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/4qxs-pq87
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv70.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v43.0