Investigating Empathy in Software Development Workplaces – Empirical Package

This repository contains R scripts and datasets used to analyze a company-wide survey on empathy in software development. It covers quantitative and qualitative analysis across 17 questions (Q1–Q17), grouped by role, team size, task, and reported empathetic behaviors. To reproduce the analyses and figures from the paper: "Investigating Empathy in Software Development Workplaces: A Mixed-Methods Study of Practitioners’ Perceptions and Practices" 📁 Folder Structure empathy-survey-analysis/ ├── data/ # Cleaned CSV datasets in Portuguese │ ├── dataset_q1_q14.csv │ ├── q10_data.csv ├── scripts/ # All R scripts for loading, analyzing, and visualizing │ ├── 1.0_load_clean_data.R │ ├── 1.1_modern_theme.R │ ├── 2_demographic_data_analysis.R │ ├── 3_q7-q9_analysis.R │ ├── 4_q10_analysis.R │ ├── 5_q13_analysis.R │ ├── 6_q13_efa_analysis.R │ ├── 7_q14_analysis.R │ ├── 8_gap_q13_q14.R │ ├── 9_heatmap_final_q12_q17.R ├── documents/ # Additional files for transparency │ ├── Complete Survey Empathy Workplaces.pdf │ ├── Content analysis - Survey Empathy Workplaces.ods │ ├── Survey Empathy Workplaces Raw Data - In Portuguese.ods ├── DESCRIPTION # R metadata with dependencies ├── LICENSE # CC BY-NC 4.0 License ├── README.md # This file ├── replication_instructions.md # Step-by-step analysis guide 🧰 Requirements R version ≥ 4.3.3 RStudio recommended Install dependencies: install.packages(c( "tidyverse", "readr", "readxl", "dplyr", "tidyr", "ggplot2", "scales", "patchwork", "showtext", "viridis", "MetBrewer", "ggsci", "psych", "rstatix", "lavaan", "semPlot" )) ▶️ Running the Analysis Follow the steps in replication_instructions.md to reproduce the plots and statistical analyses. 📄 Documentation Complete Survey Empathy Workplaces.pdf: Survey instrument administered to practitioners Content analysis - Survey Empathy Workplaces.ods: Codes for qualitative responses Survey Empathy Workplaces Raw Data - In Portuguese.ods: Raw survey data, anonymized 📌 Notes Datasets are in Portuguese, as originally collected from software practitioners. They are anonymized and cleaned for use but not translated. Figures are generated dynamically by scripts. 📜 License This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). 📄 Citation If you use this dataset in your research, please cite: Cerqueira, L. (2025). Investigating Empathy in Software Development Workplaces – Empirical Package (Versão 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15849750 Contact For questions or additional information, please contact: Lidiany Cerqueira [e-mail] Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)