This document appears to be a survey assessing attitudes towards humor in stressful situations. It asks the respondent to provide their age and gender, then rate 16 statements about appreciating humor in different stressful contexts like receiving bad news, emergencies, job interviews, medical diagnoses, and funerals. The ratings are on a 5-point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The survey was created by 4 students at QUT for a class on scale development in psychology.

1. Humour Appreciation Survey
Please provide your age: …20……… And circle your gender: Male I Female
Rate (by circling the relevant number) how you feel about the following statements using
this scale;
1 2 3 4 5
Strongly
disagree
Item. Scenario
Disagree Neither agree
or disagree
Agree Strongly
1 During times where I am stressed or upset, I would appreciate
others using humour.
agree
1 2 3 4 5
2 I t would be appropriate for an interviewer to use humour in a
stressful job interview.
1 2 3 4 5
3 I would appreciate the use of humour if I received a serious
medical diagnosis.
1 2 3 4 5
4 I f I am upset, it would be inappropriate to try and make me
laugh.
1 2 3 4 5
5 I would appreciate the use of humour if I experienced the end
of a romantic relationship.
1 2 3 4 5
6 I would consider the use of humour by a police officer who
stopped me while driving inappropriate.
1 2 3 4 5
7 I would appreciate the use of humour if I was retrenched or
made redundant.
1 2 3 4 5
8 I would appreciate the use of humour if I was breaking bad
news to someone.
1 2 3 4 5
9 I would appreciate the use humour if bad news was broken to
me.
1 2 3 4 5
10 I would appreciate the use of humour if I was behind schedule
for a project and the deadline was approaching.
1 2 3 4 5
11 I would appreciate the use of humour if I had received a large
and unexpected bill.
1 2 3 4 5
12 I would appreciate the use of humour at a funeral of a close
family member or close friend.
1 2 3 4 5
13 When I am stressed, things that I would normally find funny are
not funny.
1 2 3 4 5
14 I would appreciate the use of humour if I had lost a high value
item.
1 2 3 4 5
15 In an emergency, if someone told me a joke, I would
appreciate the use of humour.
1 2 3 4 5
16 During stressful or upsetting times, I would not appreciate
humour.
1 2 3 4 5
QUT- School of Psychology and Counselling - Individual Differences and Assessment PYB309 - Scale Dev elopment
Report, Semester 1 2014 - Elliott Baldwin, Jason Ives, John Manly & John Matthew.

2. QUT- School of Psychology and Counselling - Individual Differences and Assessment PYB309 - Scale
Development Report, Semester 1 2014 - Elliott Baldwin, Jason Ives, John Manly & John Matthew.
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