Hardiness Personality and Stress Factors Among IT Professionals in Chennai, Tamilnadu

Preoccupation with tight work schedules, offering time bound business solutions to varied and complex problems within deadlines etc., are a typical work life which is characteristic of IT Professionals. Enhancing the strength of individuals’ internal resource, especially hardiness personality, is assumed to act as a shield while encountering stressful events in occupational life. In Tamil Nadu, most of the IT companies are situated in Chennai. Among top 10 IT Companies, 378 IT Professionals were selected for the study and in this paper, an attempt has been is made to study the relationship between hardiness personality and stress factors of the IT Professionals in Chennai. It is found that the IT Professionals have hardiness personality on the dimensions, ‘Commitment’, ‘Control’ and ‘Challenge’. Further, the sources of stress, namely ‘Work Demands’, ‘Career Concerns’, ‘Systems Maintenance’, ‘Role Ambiguity’ and ‘Job Induced Tension’ are significantly related to hardiness personality of IT Professionals. ‘Administrative Tasks'and ‘Job Dissatisfaction’ are negatively correlated to hardiness personality. ‘Relationship with others'and ‘Intention to quit’ are not significantly related to hardiness personality.