Volume : 2, Issue : 2, February - 2013

�An Empirical Study on Stress Levels Among Software Professionals in the City of Chennai �

Mr. K. D. Balaji, Dr. V. M. Shenbagaraman

Abstract :

Stress is not only a phenomenon of western world but also in Asia. India ranks only after Vietnam, South Korea, Thailand, China, Singapore and Japan at the rate of 6.1 on a ten–point rating scale. Stress in India can take many forms, for example, executive stress, marital stress, unemployment stress, job stress, etc. People working in the field of IT, termed as Gold – collar employees, go through a lot of anxiety, depression and loneliness because of work environment and often exhibit feeling of inadequacy, lowered self–esteem and dissatisfaction. This results in various health hazards like simple headache to severe heart problems. An attempt has been made in this paper to study the relationship between stress and self–esteem and impact of job stress on personal health of the employees working in IT industry. Study results show employees with high and medium self–esteem experience high level of stress. Long working hours, work pressure, erratic food intervals, Anxiety were found to be the reasons affecting personal health.