臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

The purpose of this paper is to explore the difference between Western and Eastern humor styles and how it could possibly affect the workplace. “Humor” refers to people that use amusing or interesting ways to express themselves in the social environment. On a global scale there are four main styles of humor used: affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. It is proven that those that have a sense of humor are better at coping with stress and have healthier relationships.
In this thesis, it was predicted that Western culture uses more aggressive humor more than Eastern culture. Mainly because Western culture is an individualistic society that is predominantly masculine it appears to be more likely to use aggressive humor style the most. However, the results indicated that Western Culture actually uses self-enhancing humor style the most. Generally Eastern style culture is as likely to engage in humor styles as much as people in Western culture.

Chapter I: Introduction 1
Chapter II: Literature Review 3
2-1 Sense of Humor and Humor Style 3
2-1-1 Evolution of the Humor Concept 3
2-1-2 Contemporary Meanings of Humor 5
2-2 Culture Difference 10
Chapter III: Methodology 17
3-1 Major Survey Methods 17
3-2 Humor Style Questionnaire 19
Chapter IV: Results 22
4-1 Humor Styles in Different Continent 22
4-2 Comparison of Different Continent 25
4-3 Western Culture versus Eastern Culture 29
4-4 Positive Humor Style versus Negative Humor Style 31
Chapter V: Conclusion 33
References 35
Appendix 39
Survey Template 39

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