A Study Of Technostress And Mental Health Among IT Professionals: Gender Analysis

The present research aimed to study technostress and mental health among IT professionals. The technostress is the stress caused because of an inability to handle technology in a healthy way. The Mental health is the state of the well-being of the mental aspect of an individual which define how the people cope with the stressors of the life, have the capacity to realize their abilities and also how much do they contribute to the society. In order to study the current variables, the technostress scale (Raghu Nathan & Raghu Nathan, 2002) and mental health inventory (Jagdish & Srivastava, 1983) was used. The study was conducted on the sample of IT professionals. The study employed 478 IT professionals (males and females) working in different IT companies in tricity, that is, Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali. The statistics used for the present research included t-test. The study concluded out on the basis of the results that organizations should use various therapeutic interventions, such as cognitive behavior therapy, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy and other alternative therapeutic intervention such as yoga, meditation, biofeedback for the good mental health and well-being of employees.