The correlation between teachers’ humor and class climate: A study targeting primary and secondary school students
| Autor: | Nanae Kojima, Tomoya Imura, Katsuhiro Ito, Ryota Tsukawaki, Yoshiya Furukawa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Linguistics and Language
Primary (chemistry) genetic structures Sociology and Political Science education 05 social sciences 050301 education 050109 social psychology Applied linguistics Pragmatics Class (biology) eye diseases Language and Linguistics Correlation Mathematics education 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences sense organs Psychology 0503 education General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | HUMOR. 33:405-421 |
| ISSN: | 1613-3722 0933-1719 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/humor-2019-0021 |
| Popis: | This study investigated the relationship between types of humor (aggressive humor and affinity humor) of homeroom teachers, as recognized by their students, and five domains of class climate (mutual respect among the students, discipline, willingness, enjoyment, and resistance). The participants included a total of 500 students – 250 primary school students (fourth to sixth grade) and 250 secondary school students (seventh to ninth grade) in Japan. The students answered questions about their homeroom teacher’s type of humor and the climate of their class using a self-report scale. We labeled five variables of class climate as dependent variables, and two types of teachers’ humor as independent variables, and conducted a hierarchal multiple regression analysis with two steps. Findings showed that aggressive humor had a significant negative correlation to all positive class climates, and a significant positive correlation to negative class climates. Affinity humor indicated a significant correlation in the exact opposite manner to the above findings. Furthermore, the interaction effect of the two types of teachers’ humor was insignificant for every variable of class climate. The findings indicated that an ideal class climate could be created if teachers refrained as much as possible from using aggressive humor and used affinity humor. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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