| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this study is to determine whether the sensory intelligence levels of the hearing impaired athletes is related to their humor styles. The sample of the study consists of 123 hearing-impaired athletes with different degree of hearing playing in different deaf clubs in Turkey. Participation was taken into consideration on the basis of volunteering. Sensory intelligence and humor styles of the hearing impaired athletes were analyzed according to the gender, disability status, sports branches, age groups, education status, income status and hearing level of the participants. In the study, a self-assessment scale which is The Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale, Humor Styles Scale, developed by Schutte et al. (1998) and adapted to Turkish by Tatar et al. (2011), was developed by Martin et al. (2003), and adapted to Turkish by Yerlikaya (2003) was used. In this study, sensory intelligence and humor styles were analyzed and SPSS 22.00 Program which was used in quantitative research methods was used. Data were summarized by giving percentage and frequency tables. In this study, it was tested with 0.05 significance level. It was found that there was a significant difference between the emotional intelligence and sub-dimensions of hearing impaired athletes according to disability status and income (p<.05), but there was no difference according to age, gender, education, sport brach and levels of hearing loss (p>.05). In addition, it was found that there was a significant difference in humor styles and sub-dimensions of hearing-impaired athletes according to age, gender, income status and levels of hearing loss (p<.05), but there was no difference according to sport branch, education level and disability status (p>.05). Furthermore, there was no statistically significant relationship between emotional intelligence and humor styles (p>.05). The results of the study showed us how the hearing impaired people use emotional intelligence and humor styles. In addition, a new study may be proposed to assess how hearing impaired athletes and other disabled individuals use and affect emotional intelligence and humor. | en_US |
