An Analysis of the Relationship between Humor Styles of High School Principals and Their Leadership Behaviors

Purpose The aim of this research is to determine whether there is a meaningful difference or not between humor styles of school principals and their leadership behaviors. The teachers and school principals of high schools in Karabük, Sinop, Çankırı provinces form the population of the research and the sample of the research are 203 teachers in these provinces. As a data collection instrument “Humor Styles Survey” and “Instructional Leadership Behaviors Questionnaire” were used. In analyzing the data, SPSS program has been used. Frequency and percentage analyses, Independent Samples t-Test, One-Way Anova (ANOVA), Dunnett’s C and Scheffe Multiple Comparison Tests, were used in order to analyze data.