New Perspectives to Reduce Stress through Digital Humor

TL;DR

This paper explores how digital humor, including interactive content and memes, can serve as an effective strategy to reduce stress and improve well-being in the workplace, especially in the digital age.

Contribution

It introduces new perspectives on using diverse digital humor forms as stress management tools, based on a comprehensive literature review.

Findings

Digital humor can predict positive affect and well-being.

Various forms of digital humor are easily spread and impactful.

Humor as a coping strategy enhances work-related well-being.

Abstract

This study aimed to find new perspectives on the use of humor through digital media. A qualitative approach was used to conduct this study, where data were collected through a literature review. Stress is caused by the inability of a person to adapt between desires and reality. All forms of stress are basically caused by a lack of understanding of human's own limitations. Inability to fight limitations that will cause frustration, conflict, anxiety, and guilt. Too much stress can threaten a person's ability to deal with the environment. As a result, employees develop various kinds of stress symptoms that can interfere with their work performance. Thus, the management of work stress is important to do, one of which uses humor. However, in the digital age, the spread of humor can be easily facilitated. The results of this review article find new perspectives to reduce stress through digital humor, namely interactive humor, funny photos, manipulations, phanimation, celebrity soundboards, and PowerPoint humor. The research shows that the use of humor as a coping strategy is able to predict positive affect and well-being work-related. Moreover, digital humor which has various forms as well as easy, fast, and wide spread, then the effect is felt increasingly significant