Table 8.
Partial correlations and multiple regressions of the comic styles with the Inventory of Minimal Redundant Scales (controlled for age and gender).
Personality traits | Fun | Humor | Non. | Wit | Irony | Satire | Sarc. | Cyn. | R/Adj. R2 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Extraversion | 0.42∗∗∗ | 0.31∗∗∗ | 0.14∗∗∗ | 0.37∗∗∗ | 0.06∗ | 0.16∗∗∗ | -0.04 | -0.09∗∗ | 0.49/0.23 |
Agreeableness | 0.04 | 0.25∗∗∗ | 0.05 | 0.00 | -0.17∗∗∗ | -0.11∗∗∗ | -0.41∗∗∗ | -0.32∗∗∗ | 0.49/0.24 |
Conscientiousness | -0.13∗∗∗ | -0.09∗∗ | -0.15∗∗∗ | -0.08∗ | -0.04 | -0.11∗∗∗ | -0.10∗∗ | -0.13∗∗∗ | 0.21/0.04 |
Emotional stability | 0.19∗∗∗ | 0.35∗∗∗ | 0.13∗∗∗ | 0.30∗∗∗ | 0.03 | 0.09∗ | -0.10∗ | -0.02 | 0.40/0.16 |
Culture | 0.24∗∗∗ | 0.34∗∗∗ | 0.28∗∗∗ | 0.40∗∗∗ | 0.08∗ | 0.21∗∗∗ | -0.03 | 0.04 | 0.47/0.22 |
R | 0.44 | 0.51 | 0.33 | 0.53 | 0.21 | 0.29 | 0.42 | 0.36 | |
Adj. R2 | 0.19 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 0.27 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.17 | 0.13 |
N = 999. Non., nonsense; Sarc., sarcasm; Cyn., cynicism; Adj., adjusted. ∗p < 0.05; ∗∗p < 0.01; ∗∗∗p < 0.001.