RELATIONSHIP OF OVERTHINKING WITH PROFESSIONAL LIFE STRESS AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG PROFESSIONALS

The current study examined the correlation of Overthinking with Professional life stress then Job Satisfaction amongst 300 professionals. Their age range was 22-48 years. Data was collected by using convenient sampling technique. Overthinking, Professional life stress and Job satisfaction were the study variables which were measured through Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire (PTQ Ehring etal., 2010), Professional life stress Scale (PLSS David Fontana 1989) and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) by Weiss etal.,1967 respectively. Results supported all the hypotheses that are Overthinking positively correlated with Professional Life Stress, Overthinking and Professional Life stress are adversely associated with Job satisfaction. Results also exposed that there are no substantial changes between professional groups off these variables. All professional groups were high on their job satisfaction and lower on overthinking and professional life stress. Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Overthinking, Professional Life Stress, Professionals