Table 3. Means (With Standard Deviations in Parentheses) of the Four Scales of the German Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ) in the Total Sample and in Several Demographic Subgroups.
| Scale | Total | Gender |
Country |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | CH | GER | ||
| N | 1,101 | 301 | 800 | 674 | 260 |
| AF | 44.49 (8.07) | 44.65 (8.70) | 44.43 (7.83) | 44.49 (7.71) | 44.35 (8.60) |
| SE | 36.04 (8.48) | 36.11 (8.09) | 36.01 (8.62) | 36.42 (8.18) | 35.45 (9.03) |
| AG | 28.01 (7.58) | 30.46a (8.07) | 27.10b (7.17) | 27.89 (7.57) | 28.03 (7.74) |
| SD | 25.39 (8.41) | 26.02 (8.23) | 25.15 (8.47) | 25.25 (8.33) | 25.54 (8.58) |
Note. AF = affiliative; SE = self-enhancing; AG = aggressive; SD = self-defeating; CH = Switzerland; GER = Germany. Means with different subscripts in the subgroups differed significantly from one another (p < .05).