
Life orientation and quality of life of MNC employees
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Pages: 747-751
Rimpy Monga and Sunita Malhotra (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)
Personal life of an individual as an employee is being largely affected by his or her quality of life. Therefore, intentions of the researchers in the field of organizational psychology is to focus on the association between personality factors of employees who are responsible for executive decision making (for e.g., assistant managers, managers, executives, etc.) and impact of personality factors i.e. optimism on quality of life. Thus, the identified factor could be affecting the level of employee’s quality of life are their life orientation. The present investigation was carried out with the main aim to establish the relationship between life orientation (optimism) and quality of life. A sample of 300 employees working in various multinational IT companies located in NCR Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida were selected for the presents study. Life Orientation Questionnaire (LOQ; Schier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994) and world health organization – quality of life (WHO QOL BREF; World Health Organization, 1996) was administered on the sample. The descriptive statistics was calculated which includes the mean and range for each scale. Relationship between life orientation and Quality of life and their domains (physical, psychological, social & environmental) were computed by using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlational Method. Results clearly shows the significant positive correlation between life orientation and Quality of life. The obtained coefficient of correlation between life orientation and domains of quality of life (physical, psychological, social & environmental)ranges between 0.187 0.264.The highest correlation value was found between psychological QOL and life orientation (r = 0.264; p ≤ .01) whereas, the lowest value of correlation coefficient was reported between physical QOL and life orientation (r = 0.187; p ≤ .01). No significant correlation was reported between life orientation and social QOL Results reveals that individuals with an optimistic orientation leads better physical , psychological, and environmental QOL .
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Pages: 747-751
Rimpy Monga and Sunita Malhotra (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)