The Role of Humour in Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

The paper aims to clarify that a happy approach may help in managing own emotions
alongside motivating, facilitating and understanding other’s emotion among students. The data
collection instrument was self-reported Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale and Multidimension Sense of Humour Scale to measure emotional intelligence and sense humour
respectively. A correlation and regression analysis and “descriptive statistics” were
implemented to examine the variables of the study. The findings of the study suggests that having
a decent idea of humour is correlated to “emotional intelligence”. Also the two dimensions of
sense of humour; humour creation and performance and social uses of humour are positively
linked to dimensions of emotional intelligence. The results of chosen research approach may lack
generalisability. A small sample of students from three different universities scarcely allows for
true representation of whole population. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to use large
number of sample to test the proposed propositions further.
The findings of the study can be helpful to researchers, practitioners and policy makers in
better understanding of the role of humour and emotional intelligence among university students.
This paper satisfies a recognised need to study the role of humour in emotional intelligence