Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Qualitative Studies in Psychology , Zihniye Okray,Doğa Eroğlu Şah,Umut Şah, Editör, Türkiye Klinikleri Yayınevi, Ankara, ss.88-94, 2025
This study explores how non-disabled individuals define jokes in terms of content and boundaries, how they distinguish offensive humor, and how they evaluate conversational joking that involves references to disability. In addition, it investigates how disability humor is interpreted in intergroup contexts by presenting participants with joke scenarios involving actors from different identity groups (e.g., out-group non-disabled individuals, self-defeating humor by disabled individuals, in-group members with the same type of disability, and in-group members with different disabilities sharing a broader disability identity). The study employed descriptive qualitative research design and was conducted through semi-structured interviews with undergraduate students. The interview data were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. The analysis revealed that the disability-related content of the jokes played a central role in participants' evaluations of both funniness and offensiveness. Another key pattern that emerged was the shared experience of disability that is, jokes were evaluated differently when both the initiator and the target were members of the same in-group.
Keywords: Jokes; conversational humor; disability humor; offensive jokes; social identity