The Research On The Characteristics Of Sense Of Humor Aged 3～5 Years Old Children And Its Related Influential Factors

Sense of humor refers to the humor that is a stable personality characteristics or individual differences in psychological variables. Since the 60s of last century, psychologists have done a systematic empirical research on it. Children's sense of humor is closely related to their positive cognitive, personality, emotion, physical and mental health. And the children who have a good sense of humor will be a better position in social interaction. By designing different difficult experiment tasks, this study mainly talked about the characteristic of sense of humor of 3～5 year old preschool children. In order to learn the age characteristics and gender differences in the whole humor process. And we explore the temperament and the humor style of children's parents that affect the children's sense of humor, which will provide a theoretical basis for the early development of children's sense of humor.By means of combination of experiments and questionnaire, we studied 110 preschool children aged 3～5 year old. Firstly, we designed different difficult 3 tasks to invest children's response when faced the different humor sensory stimuli, which were appreciation of cartoons, music improvisational performance and word play. Meanwhile, teachers should accomplish the questionnaire of"3～9 year old children's temperament of teachers accessed"and"3～5 year old children's sense of humor of teachers accessed", and parents should accomplish the questionnaire of"Humor Styles Questionnaire". By means of the family situation experiment—sandplay, we observe the process of parent-child interaction.The results revealed that: (1) there was statistical significance in the different age children. With the development of age, the overall trend was increasing at first and then a downward. The 4 year old was a turning point. (2) There were no significant gender differences in boys and girls. The girls'overall score was slightly higher than boys'. There were no significant gender differences in laughing. And the interaction of gender and age was extremely significant. (3) There were closely relationships between temperament, children's sense of humor and parents'humor styles. Especially, children's ages, temperament's reaction, activity and social inhibition, affiliative humor can predict the development of preschool children's sense of humor in some extent.