Gender Differences in the Correlation Between Humor Style and Antisocial Creativity in Students

The differences between students - boys and girls - in the expression of indicators of humor style and antisocial creativity, as well as in the nature of the relationship between humor style and antisocial creativity were analyzed. The following methods were used «Behavioral features of antisocial creativity», developed by M. Ranko, adapted by N.V. Meshkova, «Questionnaire of humor styles», developed by R. Martin, adapted by E.M. Ivanova. For data processing we used the method of determining the differences between independent samples Mann-Whitney U-criterion and the method of correlation analysis (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient). The study revealed the following significant differences between boys and girls: 1) in the expression of humor styles: aggressive humor style prevails in boys compared to girls; 2) in the expression of components of antisocial creativity: indicators of inflicting harm prevail in boys. Along with this, reliable correlations between the indicators of humor styles and antisocial creativity were determined: in young men significant positive moderate correlations of affiliative style of humor with lying, as well as with the integral indicator of antisocial creativity, between self-deprecating style of humor and lying were found; in girls a number of positive moderate correlations of aggressive style of humor with all indicators of antisocial creativity were found.