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    The relationship between women's self-concepts and sex-role orientations and disparagement humor appreciation
    (Texas Tech University, 1983-12) Duffey, Nelda S
    The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between women's self-concepts and sex-role orientations and their appreciation of disparagement humor. The four categories of disparagement humor represented in the study were self-disparagements, opposite-sex disparagements, female-victim disparagements, and male-victim disparagements. Two hundred fourteen female undergraduate students having a mean age of twenty-two participated in this investigation. Each participant completed a questionnaire containing two self-concept measures (the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale and the Texas Social Behavior Inventory) and four sex-role orientation measures (the Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Attitudes toward Women Scale, Women ' s Rights Ideology Scale and a perceived support of women's rights scale). Hypotheses were tested using a 2 X 2 X 2 (self-concept or sex-role orientation X joke type X sex of victim) mixed model analysis of variance computed f o r each of the seven measures. Results indicated that both high and low self-identity and high and low social self-concept women appreciated opposite-sex disparagement jokes to a significantly greater extent than self-disparagement jokes. There were no significant differences between high or low self-concept women's appreciation of opposite-sex disparagement jokes. High self-identity women appreciated self-disparagement jokes significantly more than did 1ow self-identity women. There were no significant differences concerning high and low self-concept women's appreciation of either male- or female-victim jokes. There were no significant differences between feminine or androgynous women's appreciation of opposite-sex or self-disparagement jokes. Both feminine and androgynous women appreciated opposite-sex and self-disparagement jokes equally. Feminine women appreciated female victim jokes more than male-victim jokes. Androgynous women appreciated male- and female-victim jokes equally. There were no significant differences between feminine and androgynous women's appreciation of either male- or female-victim jokes.