Occupational Stress Among Library Professionals in Haryana

Abstract

Stress is a universal element which is faced by us in every walk of life and both employees and organizations are affected by it, in both positive and negative ways. Occupational stress is also called as burnout. Burnout is a physiological term and is a feeling of well-being. This is also simultaneously perceived as a sense of imbalance. Further, it is the way of reacting mentally, physically, and emotionally in different situations, which are not controllable. Another burnout in which the individual feels bad emotions like as anger, frustration, anxiety, tension and depression is the stress. With changing technological environment and information need in the present world, library professionals appear to suffer from occupational stress. A structured questionnaire was constructed in two parts: general data sheet and occupation stress was used to collect the primary data and distributed among a 100 library professionals who were randomly selected as a sample. The aim of this paper is to find out the stress among library professionals in Haryana.

Keywords: Occupational Stress, Library Professionals, Depersonalization, Burnout

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