Extending Humor Enactment Research |
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| Authors: | Melanie Booth-Butterfield Penka Kanjeva |
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| Institution: | Melanie Booth-Butterfield, PhD, University of Missouri, Professor Emerita, West Virginia University. Penka Kanjeva, BS, Psychology, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria. |
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| Abstract: | Humor orientation (HO) is an individual difference variable that influences production and delivery of humorous communication. Prior research indicates that people who score higher on HO enact humor more frequently and effectively, which in turn leads to more benefits and advantages in a variety of social and psychological outcomes. Research reported here extends this line of analysis with HO for its relationship to a broad gauge measure of benefit, satisfaction with life, extending HO into understudied domains. This study compared Bulgarian adults (n = 100) to several American samples. Primary findings were that Bulgarians were similar to American samples overall but scored consistently higher than Americans on satisfaction with life (SWL). HO and SWL are correlated (r = .27), a medium effect size. |
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| Keywords: | Eastern Europe humor Orientation humor enactment satisfaction with life |
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