Leveraging Humour to Diffuse Tension and Foster Positive Emotions in High-Stress Teams

Humour strategies, Tension diffusion, Positive emotions, High-stress teams, Workplace resilience, Emotional regulation, Team dynamics, Conflict management, Psychological safety, Employee wellbeing

The proposed study explores the utilisation of humour strategies to relieve tension, create favourable emotions, and resilience at the workplace among high-stress Indian teams by using such keywords as emotional regulation, team dynamics, psychological safety, and employee wellbeing. It has synthesized both numeric evidences, 61% professionals required more workplace humour, the prevalence of adaptive styles (F(3,303) = 49.33) among students and Army humour benefiting 50% + stressed employees, as well as patterns in qualitative conflict management. Findings support humour as a moderator of hassles, self-esteem boost, and cohesion, but threats of dark humour and cultural bias are to be considered. More importantly, correlational limits emphasize the need of causal studies. Comprehensively, humour can become one of the most crucial, yet underused interventions to inform the workforce prone to burnout (59%), which is relevant to India.