Personality and Humor Styles of University Students

The purpose of this study is to measure the personality traits of the students studying at the Faculty of Sports Sciences at the Aegean University and the Turkish Music Conservatory, and to examine the relationship of personality with their humor styles. In the study, 5-factor personality inventory was used, which was developed by Somer, Tatar and Korkmaz (2001) and, its short form was validated and found reliable by Tatar (2005). The Humor Styles Scale is a self-assessment scale developed by Martin et al. (2003) and adapted to Turkish by Yerlikaya (2003). According to the results obtained from the humor styles and the subscale, females' self-enhancing humor style total scores are higher than males (p <.05). In addition, aggressive humor style total scores of males were higher than females (p <.05). Additionally, while the participant humor style total scores of the students of the faculty of sports sciences were higher than the students studying in the conservatory (p <.05), there was no significant difference in total scores of Humor Styles, Self-Enhancing Humor, Self-Destructive Humor according to gender, age, faculty, income status (p>.05). When we look at the general scales, no statistically significant relationship was found between the total scores of "Five factor personality scale" and the total scores of "Humor styles scale". These two scales have no effect on each other and they are independent of each other (p>.05). In the future researches, it is suggested to evaluate the humor styles of the students of the other faculties and to investigate the effects of their personality on the humor, in the light of the humor styles and personality traits used by the students of the Faculty of Sports Sciences and State Turkish Music Conservatory.