Isik U.Acet M.Cengiz R.Kucuk V.2024-07-222024-07-22201717430437http://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/15215This study aimed to investigate the relationship between School of Physical Education and Sports students’ humour styles and trait anxiety levels. This study sample was composed of 607 randomly selected students attending five different Schools of Physical Education and Sports in Turkey during the spring term of the 2014–2015 academic year. As a result, significant and reverse relationships were found with positive humour styles ‘Self-enhancing humour’ and ‘Affiliative humour’ and positive and meaningful relationships were detected with negative humour styles ‘Aggressive humour’ and ‘Self-defeating humour’. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Englishanxietycontrolled clinical trialcontrolled studyhumanhumormajor clinical studyrandomized controlled trialsportspringstudentTurkey (republic)Article10.1080/17430437.2017.1329823