A Survey of the Sense of Humor and Happiness on Public Preschool Teachers in Taipei and Keelung Cites

• Main Authors: Lu, I-Hsuan, 呂亦璿
• Other Authors: Jyh-Sheng, Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2tcc36

碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 教育研究所 === 106 === This research aims to explore ‘sense of humor’, ‘happiness’ and their relationships on the preschool teachers in Taipei and Keeling city. The questionnaire survey has been conducted, and based on stratified sampling, there are 280 teachers within 23 schools in Taipei city and 19 schools in Keelung city involved in this research. The main findings are as follows: 1. The score of ‘sense of humor’ is higher than median and the dimensions from high to low are ‘attitudes toward humor and humorous people’, ‘uses of humor for coping’, ‘social uses of humor’ and ‘creation and performance’. The teachers in Taipei city are significantly higher than in Keelung city on the score of ‘the sense of humor’, ‘creation and performance’ and ‘social uses of humor’. 2. The score of ‘happiness’ is higher than median, the dimensions from high to low ‘positive optimism’, ‘self-control’, ‘involvement’, ‘energy’, ‘interpersonal interaction’ and ‘joyousness’ 3. The ‘high happiness group’ is significantly higher than the ‘low happiness group’ on the ‘attitudes toward humor and humorous people’, furthermore, the ‘high humorous group’ is significantly higher than the ‘low humorous group’ on the ‘interpersonal interaction’. 4. ‘the sense of humor’ and ‘happiness’ show low positive correlations. 5. Based on the stepwise regression, ‘happiness’ has been positively influenced by ‘uses of humor for coping’. 6. Based on canonical correlation analysis, the ‘creation and performance’, ‘uses of humor for coping’ and ‘social uses of humor’ have high positive influence on ‘interpersonal interaction’, ‘general satisfaction’ and ‘general happiness’ from the first pair of canonical variablesχ1 (ρ=.43). Hence, promoting the ‘creation and performance’, ‘uses of humor for coping’ and ‘social uses of humor’ can enhance ‘happiness’ efficiently.