“…However, through humor, covert venting became an effective way of emotional release, and its ''undercover'' nature allowed the emotive load in the submarine to remain within manageable levels. Lefcourt, Davidson, Prkachin, and Mills (1997) proposed two forms of coping strategies linked to humor, which has been supported in subsequent studies (Abel, 2002): firstly, using an emotion-focused coping strategy as a defensive measure, by finding humor in a stressful situation and thus reducing negative emotional reactions; secondly, a problem-focused coping strategy using humor to alter the stressful situation itself. Alternatively, the use of humor has also been described as a mechanism of impression management-where humor may be used to make oneself appear to be coping, rather than used to cope (Moran, 2003).…”