Page No.169-178
Sunetra Bhattacharya and Jayanti Basu
Calcutta University, Kolkata
The purpose of the research was to study Distress, Wellness and Organizational
role stress of professionals in the area of Information Technology (IT). The effect of
sex and age on the above variables as well as the predictability of the variables from
stressful life events and coping resources taken together were also examined. 101
professionals (60 men and 41 women) were administered General Health
Questionnaire-28 by Goldberg and Hiller, PGI – Well–Being Scale by Verma, Dubey
and Gupta, Organizational Role Stress Scale ( ORS- Scale ) by Pareek, Presumptive
Stressful Life Events Scale ( PSLES ) by Singh, Kaur and Kaur, and the Coping
Checklist by Rao, Subbakrishna and Prabhu. Results of the study reveal that women
experienced greater wellness and older personnel experienced more distress. Distress
could not be predicted from the life events and coping resources taken together.
Wellness and Organizational role stress could be predicted from these two variables
.