2019 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages 24-30
【Purpose】The aim of this study was to devise a program based on group cognitive behavioral therapy for encouraging stress management behavior, and to conduct and evaluate the program in IT company new employees.【Method】We created an action plan to ameliorate personal stressful situations based on lectures and group discussions about stress. Then we created a program that included a self-monitoring process through diary entries. The program was conducted for 56 new employees of an IT companies, and participants were surveyed before and after intervention about occupational stress, responses to stress, and coping. 【Results】Twenty-two participants (39.3%, 18 males, 4 females) completed the program. [1] In the target population for analysis no significant changes in before and after the program were found. [2] When the total population of subjects was divided into two groups, a group that implemented the action plan and a group that did not, coping through emotional expression was significantly higher in the group that implemented the action plan.【Conclusion】Our findings suggest that behavior modification in expression of individual emotions can occur with a program that addresses personal stressful situations through a sequence of lectures, group discussion, and self-monitoring.