انماط الفكاهة وعلاقتها باللياقة العقلية والتفكير المرن لدى معلمي ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة

Abstract

Abstract :   The current research aims to identify:

1- Humor styles among teachers of people with special needs.

2- Styles of humor among teachers of people with special needs according to the gender variable (males - females).

3- mental fitness among teachers of people with special needs.

4- mental fitness among teachers of people with special needs according to the gender variable (males - females).

5- flexible thinking among teachers of people with special needs.

6- flexible thinking among teachers of people with special needs according to the gender variable (males - females).

7- the relationship between humor styles, mental fitness, and flexible thinking among teachers of people with special needs.

8-Predictive values of humor styles and mental fitness in flexible thinking among teachers of people with special needs.

       The current research is limited to teachers of students with special needs in Baghdad and for both sides(Al-Karkh /Rusafa) for the academic year 2024/2025. The research sample reached (300) male and female teachers with special needs. To achieve the objectives of the current research, the researcher built a scale of humor styles according to Martin’s theory. (Martin (2003), which consists of four domains, each domain consisting of (10) items, and thus the number of items in the humor styles scale reached (40) items. As for the mental fitness scale, the researcher prepared the (Sahib 2016) scale, which consists of (85) items. The researcher also built a test for flexible thinking according to Witken 1981 theory, which consisted of two areas, each area (15) questions, and the total number of test questions was (30) questions, and after extracting the three measures of validity and reliability and after applying the measures to the research sample and analyzing the data and treating it statistically using statistical methods. The appropriate search results indicated:

1- Teachers of people with special needs have two styles of self-enhancement and belonging humor, while they do not have two styles of aggressive and self-defeating humor. 

2-There are statistically significant differences between male and female teachers of people with special needs and in favor of males in the style of self-enhancement humor. There are statistically significant differences between male and female teachers of people with special needs and in favor of females in the style of belonging humor. There are no statistically significant differences in Aggressive humor style and self-defeating humor style among male and female teachers of people with special needs, as both of them do not have aggressive humor and self-defeating humor.

3- Teachers of people with special needs have mental fitness.

4- There are statistically significant differences between styles and mental fitness predict flexible thinking among teachers of people with special needs.

5- At the conclusion of the research, the researcher presented a number of recommendations and future proposals.

6- Teachers of people with special needs have flexible thinking.

7-There are no statistically significant differences between male and female teachers of people with special needs in flexible thinking.

8- There is a positive correlation between styles of humor, mental fitness, and    flexible thinking among teachers of people with special needs- Both humor ,special needs( .