A study on Influence of personality factors on stress at IT industries in Kerala

Stress at work is a relatively new phenomenon of modern lifestyles. They have touched almost all professions, starting from an artist to a surgeon, of commercial pilot to a sales executive. Stress can be defined as a response to an external factor that results in physical, emotional, behavioral deviations in a person. While personality is defined as a unique set of traits and characteristics, relatively stable over time. “Clearly, personality is unique insofar as each of us has our own personality, different from any other person's”. It does not change from day to day.