Page No.48-56
S.Subramanian and M.Vinothkumar
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
Preoccupation with tight work schedules, offering time bound business solutions to
varied and complex problems within deadline etc are a typical work life characteristic
of IT professionals. Enhancing the strength of individuals’ internal resources such
as hardiness and self-esteem are assumed to act as buffer while encountering any
stressful events in occupational life. Present study was conducted to examine relation
among hardiness personality, self-esteem and occupational stress index among IT
professionals. Data were collected from 140 IT professionals employed in four
computer software organizations. The results of correlation showed that hardiness
and self esteem tend to have negative and significant correlations with role overload,
role ambiguity, low status and strenuous working conditions. The implications of
results are discussed with possible intervention to improve the internal resources
among the IT professionals so that their perceived levels of occup ational stress
can be minimized to the maximum extent possible.