title: Work stress and depressive symptoms among Japanese information systems managers.
abstract: The aim of the present study is to investigate the task-specific work stressors of IS (Information Systems) managers and to analyze the effect of these work stressors on depressive symptoms among these managers. A questionnaire including 33 items on work stressor was designed. Three hundreds of samples were gathered. The response-rate was 66.4%. Factor analysis suggested that these 33 items were categorized into 8 factors; job-overload, project-management, mental-rewards, job-latitude, communication with users, career development, technical difficulty, and work-environment. Eight work stressor scores were constructed using this Factor analysis. Using the 8 stressor-scores, and 6 items of background data, multiple regression analysis was conducted on the depressive symptoms score. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale. The results showed that the factors of project-management, mental-rewards, and job-overload had significant effect on depressive symptoms (p < 0.01). It is indicated for the first time that software project management affects depressive symptoms in systems managers.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Information Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujigaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Asakura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haratani
mesh_terms: D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000453:epidemiology*