Abstract:

Purpose: The aim of this study is to study the humor styles, the techniques of humor and the conditions of use of humor in child care clinics. Method: The universe of the research, which is of a characteristic type, has been formed by 257 nurses working in hospitals located in the children's clinic in the center of Samsun, and their sampling has been made by 108 nurses who meet the criteria for inclusion in the research. The data of the study was collected between August 2017 and January 2018, using the "Mizah Styles Measurement" which was validated by Yerlikaya in Turkey in 2003. The scale of Mizah styles has four sub-dimensions: for the Participant Mizah, for the Self-Developing Mizah, for the Attacking Mizah and for the Self-Destruction Mizah. The data assessment is done with the SPSS 21.00 program using identifying statistics, t test, ANOVA, correlation test, square tests. In the study, the meaning level is p<0.05 . Results: 96.3% of the nurses involved in the study were women, 77.8% were graduates, 77.8% were married and 73.1% had children. 81.5 percent of nurses said they used humor to communicate with children, while 92.6 percent said they thought it was a positive effect of humor. The nurses are asked separately about the humorous approaches they use to communicate with children, 13.0% of cartoon, 27.8% of cartoon characters, 38.9% of small gifts and surprises, 11.9% of joking, 12.1% of creative drama games, 4.6% of dressing and 23.6% of special day celebrations. It was to be used in 1. When the average of the scores that nurses obtain from the lower scales of the Mizah Styles Scale, it was determined that the self-developing humour subscale was 34.85±8.35; the participating humour subscale was 39.63±7.20; the aggressive humour subscale was 20.63±6.38 and the self-destructive humour subscale was 25.30±6.84 points. Nurses expressing their use of humour in communication with the child receive significantly high points from the self-developing and participating humour low scale, while aggressive humour received significantly low points from the low scale (p<0.05). The findings we have found in our study have found that the nurses who work with children have high self-developing and participatory humor styles, which are positive humor styles, and that the self-destructive and aggressive humor styles, which are negative humor approaches, are partially low.

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