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Subedar F Antony Fernandes
Pondicherry University
A. Antioch Eusebius
St. Joseph’s University, Bengaluru.
Humor in the army serves as a vital coping mechanism, helping soldiers manage stress,
build camaraderie, and communicate dissatisfaction with leadership. It fosters resilience
and humanizes the military experience through relatable anecdotes and jokes. Therefore,
this study aims to analyze two objectives: the role of humor and the types of humor
used commonly among Officers, JCOs, and ORs in the Indian Army. Data was collected
from Officers 63 (28.90%), JCOs 43 (19.72%), and ORs 112 (51.38%), a total of 222
participants. Results revealed that affiliate humor is highest in all three ranks, followed
by self-enhancing and least aggressive humor. Pearson correlations were performed
between all the dependent variables to test the MANOVA assumption that the dependent
variables would be correlated in the moderate range (i.e., .20 -80) Aggressive and
self-defeating humor reported a slightly lower correlation