Technostress Creators and Burnout

Abstract

Although prior research has examined the influence of technostress creators on various job outcomes, insights into the influence of individual technostress creators and their impacts on job outcomes are rather limited. In this research, by providing a technological component to the existing Job Demand-Resource framework, we investigate the relationship between individual technostress creators and burnout in an Indian context. We also examine the interaction among technostress creators to identify the mediating impact of techno-invasion and techno-insecurity. Analyzing a total of 163 responses, collected through an online survey we found encouraging pieces of evidence for our hypotheses. Specifically, our findings revealed that among the five technostress creators, only techno-invasion and techno-insecurity are positively related to burnout in an employee. The contributions of the study to theory and practice are also discussed.