Impact of Hope and Resilience on Occupational Stress of Informational Technology Professionals

Psychological capital with components of hope, and resilience has recently emerged as a core construct in bringing positive psychology to the work place. Keeping these views as a scope for positive psychology research, this study sought to provide a comprehensive investigation of the impact of positive psychology variables of hope and resilience on occupational stress of information technology professionals. The data was collected from a sample of 100 information technology professionals from different software companies in Bangalore. A purposive sampling method was used for the study. The data were analyzed using Multiple Regression Analysis. The results showed that there is an impact of hope and resilience on occupational stress of information technology professionals. The study reveals that people with high hope and resilience experience less occupational stress. The positive constructs like hope and resilience play major roles in predicting organizational behavior and its outcomes.