Benevolent and Corrective Humor, Life Satisfaction, and Broad Humor Dimensions: Extending the Nomological Network of the BenCor Across 25 Countries

摘要: Benevolent and corrective humor are two comic styles that have been related to virtue, morality, character strengths. A previous study also supported the viability of measuring these with BenCor in 22 countries. The present extends one by including further countries (a total 25 29 samples N = 7813), testing revised (BenCor-R), adding criterion measures assess life satisfaction four broad dimensions (social fun/entertaining humor, mockery, ineptness, cognitive/reflective humor). As expected, BenCor-R showed mostly promising psychometric properties (internal consistency factorial validity). Consistent studies, benevolent correlated positively most countries, while was uncorrelated satisfaction. These relationships were only slightly changed when controlling for social respectively. associated followed mockery. Corrective although differed between Overall, supports which has yet received insufficient attention psychology, cross-cultural investigations applications well-being, morality.