| Pub. Date | : Jul, 2019 |
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| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of Organizational Behavior |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJOB11907 |
| Author Name | : Shivani Agarwal, Pooja Garg and Renu Rastogi |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Management |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 19 |
This paper attempts to investigate gender differences with regard to the Subjective Well-Being (commonly abbreviated as SWB) among male and female employees in the IT industry. The sample from the IT industry comprised 214 people, out of which 125 were males and 89 were females. SWB was measured using three dimensions: life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect. Following data collection, significant differences regarding SWB were examined using t-test. The findings indicated significant differences in exhibiting most of the facets of SWB between the two groups. These insights can be used for improving the level of SWB among male and female employees in the IT industry.
In the 20th century, psychologists and other scientists became interested in studying happiness and answering questions like—What is happiness? Can it be measured? What can cause happiness?—employing empirical methods. Researchers wanted to extend the idea of mental health beyond the absence of pathology to also include the presence of happiness and life satisfaction (Jahoda, 1958). Traditional views on improving mental health largely entail the healing of wounds, solving of problems, and reduction of stress that are at the heart of disorder (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). However, Diener (1994) asserted that the sole measure of negative emotional state (e.g., anxiety, depression) provides a limited view of mental health. The absence of mental illness is only one part of the equation, which is completed by the presence of Subjective Well-Being (commonly abbreviated as SWB). This notion is the basis of the positive psychology movement. Well-being is a very prominent research area in positive psychology.