TITLE:
Humor Style and Creativity Tendency of Senior High School Students of Tujia Ethnic Group in China
AUTHORS:
Huiyong Fan, Ying Ge, Ross Wilkinson
KEYWORDS:
Chinese Tujia Ethnic Group, Senior High School Students, Humor Style, Creativity Tendency
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Applied Sociology,
Vol.11 No.4,
April
16,
2021
ABSTRACT: To explore humor style and creativity tendency of senior high school
students of Tujia, a Chinese ethnic group, and the relation between the two in
Chinese ethnic culture, 127 Tujia high school students and 124 Han ones were
selected to complete Humor Styles Questionnaire and Creativity Assessment
Packet. The study questionnaires were administered in a classroom setting when
participants were attending their classes. The results show that: 1) Tujia
school students prefer affiliative and self-enhancing humor. Among them, urban
male students and rural female students exhibit a greater tendency to engage in
self-enhancing humor, while urban female students are relatively weak; first grade
senior high school students from the city prefer maladaptive aggressive humor.
Between Tujia and Han students, the former ones are more prone to engage in
self-enhancing humor and less prone to engage in aggressive humor than their
Han counterparts. 2) Creativity tendency of Tujia students is at a good level,
especially inquisitiveness and adventure. In terms of overall performance and
adventure, Tujia students fare better than the students of Han ethnicity, and
then the first-grade students stand out among the Tujia students. 3) There is a significant positive correlation between
humor style and creativity tendency in the Tujia groups. The affiliative humor style is associated with higher levels of
creativity.