Humor preference and the Autism Quotient in an undergraduate sample
Humor preference and the Autism Quotient in an undergraduate sample
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本科生样本中的幽默偏好和自闭症商数
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10.1515/humor-2013-0028
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2013
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D. Rawlings
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D. Rawlings
先前大多数关于自闭症和幽默的研究比较了自闭症儿童和对照组对笑话或漫画的反应。本研究使用幽默欣赏测量（HAM, Rawlings 2008），测量对假设的现实生活情境和笑话的反应；并采用了自闭症谱系商数（AQ, Baron-Cohen et al. 1995），这是一种自我报告工具，它假设自闭症存在于一个连续体中。在一个大学生样本（N = 126）中，据报道，总的AQ分数与潜在幽默、涉及他人和自己的非暴力情境的“不愉快/厌恶”评级之间存在实质性的相关性。相关分析和回归分析表明，注意转换子量表与幽默变量的关系最强。注意转换的总体重要性通过将单个子量表项目与相关幽默变量相关联进一步检验。幽默与注意力转换之间的相关性取决于参与者回避与新奇或不可预测的情景的相对倾向。
Abstract Most previous studies relating autism and humor have compared responses to jokes or cartoons in autistic children and controls. The present study used the Humor Appreciation Measure (HAM, Rawlings 2008), which measures responses to hypothetical real life situations, as well as jokes; and employed the Autism-spectrum Quotient (AQ, Baron-Cohen et al. 1995), a self-report instrument which assumes that autism exists on a continuum. In an undergraduate sample (N = 126), substantial correlations were reported between the total AQ score and the “unpleasant/aversive” ratings of potentially humorous, non-violent situations involving other people and the self. Correlational and regression analysis indicated that the strongest relationships with humor variables involved the Attention Switching sub-scale. The overall importance of Attention Switching was further examined by correlating individual sub-scale items with relevant humor variables. It is argued that the correlation between humor and Attention Switching is dependent on participants' relative tendency to avoid situations associated with the novel or unpredictable.