Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-2 | Issue-09 | 836-841
Original Research Article
Individual Differences in Managerial Humor Styles of Thai Managers in Real Estate Firms
Chaiyaset Promsri
Published : Sept. 30, 2017
Abstract
Despite numerous studies have placed the emphasis on an examination of
individual differences in humor styles, the investigation of this topic in Thai context
has been overlooked and needs to be explored. As a consequence, the objective of
this present study was to examine individual differences including gender, age, and
body mass index (BMI) in humor style of Thai managers in real estate companies.
Seventy-nine managers in all hierarchical levels of two real estate firms listed in
Stock Exchange of Thailand were gathered for data collection by using Humor Style
Questionnaire (HSQ) as the instrument. The result of independent sample t-test
showed that male managers had a higher score on the use of self-defeating humor
style than female managers (t = 2.806, p = 0.007). In addition, the result of KruskalWallis H test demonstrated that there was a statistically significant difference in selfenhancing humor between the different age groups (χ2 (3) = 8.731, p = .033).
Nonetheless, results of Kruskal-Wallis H test indicated no statistically significant
differences in all four humor styles between the different BMI groups. Discussion
and recommendations for further studies were also discussed.