Abstract

This paper provides causal evidence on the extent to which role of occupational stress and emotional intelligence as exogenous variables of individual happiness for employees of manufacturing and service sectors in India. Structural Equation Modeling was used to assess the fit of models that proposes: inter role distance, role expectation conflict & role ambiguity through emotional intelligence (overall and commitment, altruistic behaviour & value orientation) critical significant exogenous variables of individual happiness. Total and indirect effects were also estimated for the models. The models provided a good fit for both sets of manifest variables. Our results indicate that occupational stress through emotional intelligence has direct and indirect effects on individual happiness and significantly large percent of variance explained by the models.