To study the sense of humour of college students

Humour is part of the human experience. As human beings, we have the ability to laugh at others and ourselves, to make jokes, to add humour to situations which are seemingly without humour, and to be absurd. The present study was conducted to know humour of college students. An investigation was done over the 500 students at college level of the Haryana state. Self developed scale having four dimensions was given to students to know their sense of humour. Findings revealed that significant difference was found between boys and girl students with respect to sense of humour, where as no significant difference was found between rural and urban students with respect to sense of humour, This depicts that present system of education give equal opportunities and freedom for nurturing the sense of humour in students and boys need encouragement to develop their humour skills.