en Nursing Original Article <span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black"><b>Background:</b> Humor creates intimacy between the patient and the nurse, develops a feeling of trust, and positively affects care quality. This study aimed to determine nursing students&#39; humor styles and care behaviors and evaluate the relationship between their humor styles and perceived care behaviors.</span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black"><b>Methods:</b> This was a cross-sectional and analytical research. The sample comprised 124 second-, third-, and fourth-year nursing students at a university located in Istanbul between December 2019 and December 2020. The data collection tools were a Personal Information Form, Humor Styles Scale, and Care Assessment Questionnaire. Frequency tables, descriptive statistics, independent samples <i>t</i>-test, analysis of variance, Mann-Whitney-U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Bonferroni correction, and Spearman correlation were employed to analyze the data. &nbsp;</span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black"><b>Results:</b> It was determined that 86.3% of the nur</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black">sing students were female, 97.6% were single, their mean age was 20.80&plusmn;1.94 years, and 49.2% of the students were second-year students. The total mean score of the students on the Care Assessment Questionnaire was 6.38&plusmn;0.51. A positive humor style was significantly related to the subscales of the Care Assessment Questionnaire (P<0.05).</span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><span style="color:black"><b>Conclusions:</b> There was a significant relationship between nursing students&#39; humor styles and perceived care behaviors.&nbsp;The positive humor style had a positive effect on the caring behavior. </span></span></span></span></span> Nursing, Perception, Progressive patient care, Wit and humor 14 18 http://nmj.goums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1594-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Burcu Oflaz burcuoflazz@gmail.com 100319475328460012563 100319475328460012563 Yes Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Social Services Department, Social Services Directorate, Istanbul, Turkey Gülcan Kendirkıran gulcank_87@hotmail.com 100319475328460012564 100319475328460012564 No Halic University - Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Turkey