Attitude to Humour and Jokes in Children with Mild Intellectual Disabilities

DOI

10.2991/ichssr-16.2016.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

mild intellectual disability, sense of humour, anxiety, knowledge development, child development, cartoons

Abstract

This paper focuses on the comparison of sense of humour and attitudes to humour in a peer group of 10-11 year-olds. It surveys children with normal intellectual abilities and children with mild intellectual disability (mild ID). The SHQ-6 questionnaire and a set of cartoons were used as research tools. Although children with mild ID regard humourists as irritating and they feel uncomfortable in situations where someone jokes, they generally laugh more. Does it mean they understand jokes better, if they laugh more?

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Pavel Zikl
AU  - MarkŽta Lev'nská
AU  - Kristyna Honzicková
AU  - Lucie Brabcová
AU  - Petra Bambulová
AU  - Vendula Kroilová
PY  - 2016/07
DA  - 2016/07
TI  - Attitude to Humour and Jokes in Children with Mild Intellectual Disabilities
BT  - Proceedings of 2016 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 170
EP  - 173
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ichssr-16.2016.36
DO  - 10.2991/ichssr-16.2016.36
ID  - Zikl2016/07
ER  -