Exploring Self-Care, Anxiety, Depression, and the Gender Gap in the Software Engineering Pipeline.

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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI:10.3390/ijerph21111468

Alicia Julia Wilson Takaoka, Letizia Jaccheri, Kshitij Sharma

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Software engineers may experience burnout, which is often caused by the anxieties and stresses of the workplace. Understanding the well-being and resilience practices of software engineers and evaluating their knowledge of mental health is one factor to understand our current, diverse, multi-generational workplaces. Here, we present preliminary results of a study examining the self-care practices of software engineers, a general overview of the state of mental health of software engineers, and correlations between expressions of mental health and demographic factors. Among 224 respondents, positive correlations between imposter syndrome and happiness, anxiety, and depression were identified. We also identified negative correlations between mental health literacy and imposter syndrome, happiness, anxiety, and depression. Well-being had a positive correlation with self-efficacy, as well as with happiness. We also present the Gender Gap in mental health and our findings in relation to that construct. Our findings suggest increasing mental health support services.

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探索软件工程专业的自理能力、焦虑、抑郁和性别差距。

软件工程师可能会出现职业倦怠，这通常是由工作场所的焦虑和压力造成的。了解软件工程师的幸福感和抗压能力，评估他们对心理健康的认识，是了解我们当前多元化、多代同堂的工作场所的一个因素。在此，我们介绍一项研究的初步结果，该研究考察了软件工程师的自我保健实践、软件工程师心理健康状况的总体概况以及心理健康表现与人口统计因素之间的相关性。在 224 名受访者中，我们发现了冒名顶替综合症与幸福感、焦虑和抑郁之间的正相关关系。我们还发现心理健康素养与冒名顶替综合症、幸福感、焦虑和抑郁之间存在负相关。幸福感与自我效能以及幸福感呈正相关。我们还介绍了心理健康方面的性别差距以及我们在这一问题上的发现。我们的发现建议增加心理健康支持服务。

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