A study on stressors: elaboration of a guide to good practices for reducing professionals’ stress from you

Abstract

Stress reaches getting more and more people, and the triggering factor, often, is the excessive activities. In this
sense, this work aims to develop a guide to good practices to reduce stress and identify the main stressors that
interfere in the work environment of software professionals. Additionally, we attempt to describe categorization
from the perspective of stress theory. The Method was through a review of the literature and empirical studies of
multiple cases of five technology companies located in Recife / PE. A questionnaire adapted from the Job Stress
Scale was applied with the members of the software teams totaling 51 respondents. As a result, we identified and
categorized nineteen stressors. Among them, we can see three stressors that come from the work environment
of Software Professionals, compared to other factors identified and cited in research done by the author Lipp or
identified by the JSS instrument. Negative correlations were found between these stressors between perceived
pressure and their impairment, which directly interfere with the well being and performance of the technology
professional. Starting from this premise, the “good practices” were structured, whose principle is to minimize
or eliminate the stress of individuals in the work environment.