Humor Styles and Conflict Management in IT Professionals

Pages:278-281
Subhashini Pasupuleti (Department of Psychology, GSHS, GITAM University, Hyderabad, Telangana)

The present study looked at the relationship between humor styles and conflict management. Participants included 100 IT professionals working in companies located in Hyderabad. Correlational analysis was employed to investigate the relationship between humor styles and conflict management. Further, ANOVA was used to understand the variance in humor styles and conflict management in IT professionals. The results showed that affiliative humor and self-enhancing humor shared a significant positive relationship with solution-oriented conflict management style. In addition, the aggressive humor style shared an inverse relationship with the solution-oriented conflict management style. Concerning humor styles, IT professionals preferred using affiliative humor and self-enhancing humor compared to the other types of humor. Similarly, they used a more solution-oriented conflict management style when dealing with conflict situations.