ÇOK BOYUTLU MİZAH DUYGUSU ÖLÇEĞİ TÜRKÇE FORMUNUN GÜNCELLENMESİ VE YENİDEN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ
THE UPDATING AND REEVALUATION OF THE TURKISH FORM OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL SENSE OF HUMOR SCALE

Summary/Abstract: Humor is a concept that has been studied and discussed throughout the ages in many different fields including philosophy, literature, education, and psychology. In psychology, humor has been examined in various perspectives and areas from psychoanalytic theory to positive psychology. Sense of humor, which is seen as a personality trait, is a concept that includes individuals' perceptions, production, and use of humor. Different conceptualizations and measurement tools for sense of humor are available in the literature. The Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale (MSHS) is a self-report scale with 24 five-point Likert items developed by Thorson and Powell in 1993. The scale, which is adapted into Turkish by Aslan and his colleagues in 1999, has a total sense of humor score that is recommended for use as well as four subscales as humor creativity or generation, coping humor, appreciation of humorous people, and appreciation of humor. There has been little use of the scale in research since it has been adapted to Turkish and a discrepancy in two items and rating anchors was observed between the original and adapted versions.

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