The Humorous Behavior Q-Sort provides two sets of scores. The first set measures humorous style across five bipolar personality factors, reflecting the stylistic dimensions of Social Warmth, Reflectivity, Compentency, Earthiness, and Benignness. Your humor style scores are presented in the first table. These scores are standardized to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of 10. For each factor, if a score is highly negative (beyond -10), you endorsed largely items assocated with the stylistic quality listed on the left side of the table. If a score is highly positive (above +10), you endorsed largely items associated with the quality on the right hand side. For example, if you had a score of -15 on the first factor, you endorsed, more than most people, items associated with a socially cold humorous style. More information on how to interpret your Humor Styles scores can be found in the Humorous Behavior Q-Sort Deck Manual.
The second set of scores assesses humor type. The Humorous Behavior Q-Sort can also characterize individuals across three sets of diametrically opposed personality types: observers-jokesters, merrymakers-curmudgeons, cynics-bumblers. Here, personality is assessed, not in terms of a set of traits, but rather in terms of how closely a person's response pattern matches that of a particular type of humorous individual. Your humor type is reflected in the second table. These scores are also standardized to have a mean of zero and a standard deviation of 10. For each scale, a high negative score reflects a tendency toward the type on the left side of the table; a high positive score reflects a tendency toward the type listed on the right side. You highest score would reflect your primary humor type. However, people can display blended types as reflected by their scores across all three scales. for example, a person could endorse items in a pattern similar to individuals characterized as Merrymakers, and, to a lesser extent, show some affinity to the items that characterize Jokesters and/or Cynics. More information on how to interpret Humor Type scores will be available in upcoming revised edition of the Humorous Behavior Q-Sort Manual.
| Humor Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Warmth | Cold | Warm | 0.00 |
| Reflectiveness | Boorish | Reflective | 0.00 |
| Competency | Incompetent | Competent | 0.00 |
| Earthiness | Repressed | Earthy | 0.00 |
| Benignness | Mean | Benign | 0.00 |
| The scores reflect humorous style across five dimensions of humorous behavior. Scores are standardized with a mean of zero and standard deviation of 10. | |||
| Humor Type | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Types J/O | Jokester | Observer | 0.00 |
| Types C/M | Curmudgeon | Merrymaker | 0.00 |
| Types B/Y | Bumbler | Cynic | 0.00 |
The scores reflect humor typing across three type scales. | |||