DSpace Collection:https://hdl.handle.net/10316/1952024-03-29T00:04:44Z2024-03-29T00:04:44ZUsing social media and personality traits to assess software developers' emotional polaritySilva, LeoCastro, Marília Gurgel deSilva, Miriam BernardinoSantos, Milena do Carmo Cunha dosKulesza, UiráLima, MargaridaMadeira, Henriquehttps://hdl.handle.net/10316/1144852024-03-28T11:21:32Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Using social media and personality traits to assess software developers' emotional polarity
Authors: Silva, Leo; Castro, Marília Gurgel de; Silva, Miriam Bernardino; Santos, Milena do Carmo Cunha dos; Kulesza, Uirá; Lima, Margarida; Madeira, Henrique
Abstract: Although human factors (e.g., cognitive functions, behaviors and skills, human error models, etc.) are key elements to improve software development productivity and quality, the role of software developers' emotions and their personality traits in software engineering still needs to be studied. A major difficulty is in assessing developers' emotions, leading to the classic problem of having difficulties understanding what cannot be easily measured. Existing approaches to infer emotions, such as facial expressions, self-assessed surveys, and biometric sensors, imply considerable intrusiveness on developers and tend to be used only during normal working periods. This article proposes to assess the feasibility of using social media posts (e.g., developers' posts on Twitter) to accurately determine the polarity of emotions of software developers over extended periods in a non-intrusive manner, allowing the identification of potentially abnormal periods of negative or positive sentiments of developers that may affect software development productivity or software quality. Our results suggested that Twitter data can serve as a valid source for accurately inferring the polarity of emotions. We evaluated 31 combinations of unsupervised lexicon-based techniques using a dataset with 79,029 public posts from Twitter from sixteen software developers, achieving a macro F1-Score of 0.745 and 76.8% of accuracy with the ensemble comprised of SentiStrength, Sentilex-PT, and LIWC2015_PT lexicons. Among other results, we found a statistically significant difference in tweets' polarities posted during working and non-working periods for 31.25% of the participants, suggesting that emotional polarity monitoring outside working hours could also be relevant. We also assessed the Big Five personality traits of the developers and preliminarily used them to ponder the polarities inferences. In this context, Openness, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion were frequently related to neutral and positive posts, while Neuroticism is associated with negative posts. Our results show that the proposed approach is accurate enough to constitute a simple and non-intrusive alternative to existing methods. Tools using this approach can be applied in real software development environments to support software team workers in making decisions to improve the software development process.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZPersonal Projects Analysis as an idiographic approach in psychotherapy: an exploratory studyLima, Margarida Pedroso deAlbuquerque, IsabelMartins, Paulo JorgeGonzalez, António-Joséhttps://hdl.handle.net/10316/1144272024-03-27T12:49:43Z2023-05-08T00:00:00ZTitle: Personal Projects Analysis as an idiographic approach in psychotherapy: an exploratory study
Authors: Lima, Margarida Pedroso de; Albuquerque, Isabel; Martins, Paulo Jorge; Gonzalez, António-José
Abstract: Client feedback research is a new but encouraging area that recognizes the importance of engaging patients in offered treatments and the relevance of the relationship between therapist and client. This study aimed to explore clients' experiences of goal-oriented work using Personal Projects Analysis (PPA). PPA was applied to 5 participants of a psychodrama group after their consent and in agreement with the ethics and deontology research university committee. Their progress was evaluated with Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation Outcome Measure (CORE-OM; 4 moments) and subjective well-being measures. Findings show how personal projects may be informative about clients' difficulties and change processes. All outcomes on CORE-OM went below clinical cut-off points, and all these changes are reliable and clinically significant. PPA offers a consistent way to implement the goals approach in a psychotherapeutic context successfully. Nevertheless, some adjustments need to be implemented in the goal-oriented work using PPA.2023-05-08T00:00:00ZDeterminants of psychotherapists' attitudes to online psychotherapyRutkowska, EmiliaFurmańska, JoannaLane, HakanMarques, Cristiana C.Martins, Maria JoãoSahar, Najam UsMeixner, JohannesTullio, ValeriaArgo, AntoninaBermeo Barros, David Marcelohttps://hdl.handle.net/10316/1144242024-03-27T12:23:55Z2023-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Determinants of psychotherapists' attitudes to online psychotherapy
Authors: Rutkowska, Emilia; Furmańska, Joanna; Lane, Hakan; Marques, Cristiana C.; Martins, Maria João; Sahar, Najam Us; Meixner, Johannes; Tullio, Valeria; Argo, Antonina; Bermeo Barros, David Marcelo
Abstract: Introduction: Online psychotherapy is a form of work that is becoming more
and more popular. Public health problems, such as COVID-19, forced mental
health professionals and patients to incorporate new methodologies such as
the use of electronic media and internet to provide follow-up, treatment and
also supervision. The aim of this study was to investigate which factors shape
the therapists’ attitudes toward online psychotherapy during a pandemic taking
into account: (1) attitudes toward the COVID-19 pandemic (fear of contagion,
pandemic fatigue, etc.), (2) personal characteristics of the psychotherapists (age,
gender, feeling of efficacy, anxiety, depression, etc.), and (3) characteristics of the
psychotherapeutic practice (guideline procedure, client age group, professional
experience, etc).
Materials and methods: Study participants were 177 psychotherapists from
four European countries: Poland (n = 48), Germany (n = 44), Sweden (n = 49),
and Portugal (n = 36). Data were collected by means of an individual online
survey through the original questionnaire and the standardized scales: a
modified version of the Attitudes toward Psychological Online Interventions
Scale (APOI), Fear of Contagion by COVID-19 Scale (FCS COVID-19),
Pandemic Fatigue Scale (PFS), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS),
Social Support Questionnaire (F-SozU K-14), and the Sense of Efficiency Test
(SET).
Results: Determinants that impacted psychotherapists’ attitudes toward
online therapy were: COVID-19 belief in prevention—keeping distance and
hand disinfection, pandemic behavioral fatigue, previous online therapy
experience (including voice call), working with youth and adults. Our study
showed that belief in the sense of prevention in the form of taking care
of hand disinfection before the session, pandemic behavioral fatigue and
experience in working with adults were significant predictors of negative
attitudes of therapists toward online psychological interventions. On the
other hand, belief in the sense of prevention in the form of keeping distance
during the session had a positive effect on general attitudes toward therapy
conducted via the internet.
Discussion: The online therapy boom during the COVID-19 pandemic has
spawned a powerful tool for psychotherapists. More research in this area and
training of psychotherapists are needed for online psychological interventions to become an effective therapy format that is accepted by patients and therapists alike.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZRemotely delivered cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder in adolescence: Preliminary efficacy evidence based on changes throughout treatmentVagos, PaulaFigueiredo, Diana VieiraGanho-Ávila, AnaMayr, AndreasRijo, Danielhttps://hdl.handle.net/10316/1141622024-03-22T13:01:32Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Remotely delivered cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder in adolescence: Preliminary efficacy evidence based on changes throughout treatment
Authors: Vagos, Paula; Figueiredo, Diana Vieira; Ganho-Ávila, Ana; Mayr, Andreas; Rijo, Daniel
Abstract: Cognitive therapy has been established as the frontline treatment for adults with social anxiety disorder (SAD); its efficacy with socially anxious adolescents is incipient but promising. This work investigated change in social anxiety symptoms reported by adolescents and their therapist as they go through remotely delivered 10-session cognitive therapy (i.e., CT@TeenSAD). Participants were 21 adolescents (81% females; M age = 16.10) diagnosed with SAD. They reported on change on their social anxiety symptoms at the beginning of each session; their therapist reported on how their symptoms had improved at the end of each session. Results, though preliminary, show that sessions had a significant impact on self- and therapist reported change, with consistent and continuous improvement across intervention sessions. Gender did not impact on that change, but therapist did: though the same pattern of change emerged for both therapists, it was more evident for the therapist with the greatest previous clinical experience. Overall, current findings align with the cognitive therapy framework of progressive gains throughout therapy. They also add evidence on the applicability and usefulness of an online cognitive approach to adolescents diagnosed with SAD.2022-01-01T00:00:00Z