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trait cheerfulness: a standalone construct

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Personality psychology

a temperament basis of humor marked by a prevailing cheerful mood and a low threshold for smiling and laughter, contrasted with seriousness and bad mood.

In personality psychology, trait cheerfulness refers to a temperament basis of humor marked by a prevailing cheerful mood and a low threshold for smiling and laughter, contrasted with seriousness and bad mood. This meaning comes from Ruch (1996) in humr.[1]

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basis3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs humor1 fields · 3 citationsanchor · a standalone construct mood4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Ruch, W., Köhler, G., & Van Thriel, C. (1996). Assessing the „humorous temperament“: Construction of the facet and standard trait forms of the State-Trait-Cheerfulness-Inventory: STCI. humr, 9(3-4), 303-340. https://doi.org/10.1515/humr.1996.9.3-4.303

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