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The Affect of Software Developers: Common Misconceptions and Measurements

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CHASE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

Pages 123 - 124

https://doi.org/10.1109/CHASE.2015.23

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

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The study of affects (i.e., emotions, moods) in the workplace has received a lot of attention in the last 15 years. Despite the fact that software development has been shown to be intellectual, creative, and driven by cognitive activities, and that affects have a deep influence on cognitive activities, software engineering research lacks an understanding of the affects of software developers. This note provides (1) common misconceptions of affects when dealing with job satisfaction, motivation, commitment, well-being, and happiness; (2) validated measurement instruments for affect measurement; and (3) our recommendations when measuring the affects of software developers.

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The Affect of Software Developers: Common Misconceptions and Measurements
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management

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CHASE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 8th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

May 2015

124 pages

ISBN:9781467370318

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Felipe DKalinowski MGraziotin DNatividade J(2023)Psychometric instruments in software engineering research on personalityJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2023.111740203:COnline publication date: 13-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2023.111740
Malmi LSheard JKinnunen PSimon Sinclair JRobins AMoskal AKo AMcCauley RRobins AKo A(2020)Theories and Models of Emotions, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy in the Context of Programming EducationProceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research10.1145/3372782.3406279(36-47)Online publication date: 10-Aug-2020
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2019.08.002
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3084226.3084242

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