Work-related wellness of information technology professionals in South Africa

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The information technology industry is considered to be one of the most demanding industries, with significant social, physical and psychological consequences for the wellbeing of the information technology professional.Work wellness and general psychological well-being plays an important role in the well-being of the information technology professional.The measurement of work-related wellness requires valid, reliable and culturally fair measuring instruments.Ho\vever.research on work wellness and occupational well-being in South Africa is lacking, especially in the information technology context.A lack of norms for work-related wellness in South Africa makes the identification of work-related wellness in the information technology industry difficult.Consequently, investigating the reliability, validity, equivalence and bias of work-related well-being measuring instruments would result in the standardisation of work wellness (consisting of burnout and engagement) and occupational well-

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