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[Stress structures and cognitive processes among IT engineers].
Purpose: This study aimed to obtain useful suggestions and findings regarding IT engineers' stressors, their structures, and the process of recognizing stress, which are useful for workplace environmental improvement activities as a primary prevention of mental illness.
Methods: Data were collected through interviews conducted with 15 employees from Information Systems departments and System Integration Service Providers and analyzed qualitatively using the modified grounded theory approach.
Results: The qualitative analysis generated 27 concepts, 13 categories, and five category groups. From the categories generated, a result diagram was constructed to identify stress and stressor structures and cognitive processes, such as 1. irritation in the workplace, 2. loneliness at work, and 3. career anxiety.
Conclusions: IT engineers engage in various projects and workplaces to realize their careers and establish a view of their work as engineers. IT engineers perceive stress from the effects of stressors based on multiple factors, such as changes in the workplace and working style and the gap between the ideal and reality. The study findings can be used as a support tool for workplace environmental improvement activities with a participatory approach in the information and communications industry and may be deepened in workshops for stress assessment and discussions for improvement among workers.