Happiness in it Professionals: Does it Depend upon Organizational Role Stress or Stressful Life Events?

In the present study, researchers want to compare happy and unhappy IT professionals in terms of perception of stressful life events and organizational role stress. The study comprises a sample of 100 male married individuals, age ranging between 28-32 years, with an educational qualification of B.Tech and currently employed in IT sector. Each of the subject was individually assessed by Personal Information Schedule, Organizational Role Stress Scale (Pareek, 1981), Presumptive Stressful Life Event Scale (Singh et al., 1984) and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (Hills & Argyle, 2002). On the basis of median value of happiness, data of the sample are split into two groups- 1st group- below the median value and 2nd group- equal and above the median value. Inferential t-tests were done to find out the significant difference between the two groups on the basis of role stress and stressful life events. Results reveal that there is significant difference between the two groups with regard to four dimensions of organizational role stress, i.e., role ambiguity, role expectation conflict, self role distance and personal in adequacyat .05 level of significance but there is no significant difference in terms of stressful life events.