The general factor of personality and humor styles |
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| Authors: | Julie Aitken Schermer Rod A Martin Nicholas G Martin Michael Lynskey Philip A Vernon |
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| Institution: | 1. Management and Organizational Studies, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2;2. Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;3. Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;4. Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA |
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| Abstract: | The present study examined the phenotypic, genetic, and environmental correlations between a general factor of personality (GFP) and four humor styles: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. Participants were 571 same-sex adult twin pairs. Individuals completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) and a short form of the NEO personality scale (from which the GFP was extracted). The GFP was found to be heritable with an estimated value of .31. At the phenotypic level, the GFP was found to correlate significantly with the HSQ scales; positively with affiliative and self-enhancing, and negatively with aggressive and self-defeating. Three of the four phenotypic correlations were found to be attributable to correlated genetic factors, suggesting that these dimensions of humor styles and the GFP may have a common genetic factor. |
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| Keywords: | Humor Personality Twins Behavior genetics General factor of personality |
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