QUESTIONNAIRE OF OCCUPATIONAL HUMOROUS COPING: THE STUDY OF ADAPTATION INTO TURKISH, RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY - M？ZAH YOLUYLA BA？A ？IKMA ？L？E？？: TüRK？E’YE UYARLANMASI, GüVEN？L？RL？K VE GE？ERL？L？K ？ALI？MASI

The purpose of this research is to adapt Questionnaire of Occupational Humorous Coping into Turkish and study the psychometrical features of the Turkish form of the questionnaire. Primarily, items translated into Turkish were evaluated by English language experts and necessary modifications were made according to the suggestions. Afterwards, data were collected from 403 white-collar employees working in the service sector in Turkey. According to the results, the scale –as a whole and with sub-dimensions- has a high internal consistency. Confirmatory factor analysis supported both the four-dimensional structure and the one-dimensional structure of the Scale. The high correlations between scores obtained from the Turkish form of Questionnaire of Occupational Humorous Coping and two similar scales (Coping Humor Scale and Humor Style Scale) showed that the scale has a criterion validity. The results of this study showed that the Questionnaire of Occupational Humorous Coping is a valid and reliable instrument, however, since the scale is newly acquired to Turkish, it is suggested to be retested in different sample groups. Additionally, in the light of correlations between the sub-dimensions of the scale and different types of humor, evaluations and suggestions for future research were made in the discussion section