Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licenseFox, ClaireHunter, Simon C.Jones, Sian2019-02-202019-02-202014-11-10Fox, C., Hunter, S. C. & Jones, S. (2015) The relationship between peer victimization and children’s humor styles: It’s no laughing matter! Social Development, 24 (3), pp. 443-461.1467-9507https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/9357https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12099Sian Jones - ORCID: 0000-0002-2399-1017 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-1017Item previously deposited in Keele University repository on 28 October 2015 at: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/1089 and in University of Strathclyde (Strathprints) repository on 1 June 2015 at: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/53174This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Fox, C., Hunter, S. C. & Jones, S. (2015) The relationship between peer victimization and children’s humor styles: It’s no laughing matter! Social Development, 24 (3), pp. 443-461., which has been published in final form at: https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12099. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.This study assessed the concurrent and prospective (fall to spring) associations between peer victimization and four humor styles, two of which are adaptive (affiliative and self‐enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive and self‐defeating). Participants were 1234 adolescents (52 percent female) aged 11–13 years, drawn from six secondary schools in England. Self‐reports and peer reports of peer victimization were collected, as were self‐reports of humor styles. In cross‐sectional analyses, peer victimization was associated with all four humor styles, most strongly with self‐defeating and affiliative humor. Across the school year, peer victimization was associated with an increase in self‐defeating humor and a decrease in affiliative humor (and vice‐versa). These results have implications for models of humor development and how we understand the continuity of peer victimization.443-461en© 2014 The Authorshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/VictimizationBullyingLongitudinal StudiesHumorArticle