A STUDY OF HUMOR DIFFERENCES IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS DOING AND NOT DOING SPORT

This paper aimed to analyze humor style differences in the university students doing sport and not doing sport. The research group consisted of total 127 university students including 52 females, 75 males having education at the various departments of Sport Sciences Faculty. When using the personal information form in obtaining socio-demographical information, the Humor Styles Scale developed by Martin et al. [1] and adapted into Turkish by Yerlikaya [2] was used for determining humor style differences. The scale of 32 items involved four sub-dimensions including participating (KM), self-developing (KGM), aggressive (SM) and self-desructive (KYM) humor. While any statistical differences were not observed in humor styles based on the students' age and income level factors, statistical differences were observed based on the sport and gender factors (p