Impact Of Technostress Research Articles

The impact of technostress on caregivers of primary and secondary school children during distance-learning throughout the COVID-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT The shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to numerous complaints from caregivers unaccustomed to new technologies, resulting in technostress, defined as “stress or psychosomatic illness caused by working with computer technology on a daily basis.” This study investigates the prevalence and impact of technostress on caregivers of primary and middle school children attending online school from home in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A cross-sectional study was conducted among caregivers with children in primary and middle school residing in the UAE (n = 727; males = 86, females = 641). Data was collected using an online questionnaire examining technostress and its impact on caregiver-child relationships and health, including sleep, anxiety, and appetite. Data analysis was performed using SPSS (version 26). Caregivers aged 30–39 years and females had the highest technostress scores (p < 0.05), while occupation and education levels had no effect. Technostress was significantly correlated with mental health (r2 = 0.291; p < 0.001) and caregiver-child relationships (r2 = 0.429; p < 0.001). Caregivers with two or more children in primary and middle school had higher technostress scores (p < 0.05). In conclusion, female caregivers aged 30–39 experienced higher technostress, negatively impacting their mental health and relationships with their children. We recommend targeted anti-technostress courses and enhanced communication.

The Impact of Technostress on Rumination in the Banking Sector of Pakistan

Although Pakistan's banking industry is leading the way in digital transformation, a hidden techno-stress is associated with this advancement. Our research, created with your business goals in mind, looks at how work-life conflict, information overload, and other tech-related worries affect the dedication and well-being of employees. We look at how common techno-stress is and how it relates to depressive thoughts. We aim to provide workable solutions that lessen technology-related stress while promoting worker well-being and corporate efficiency. We examine the effects of various types of rumination on productivity using survey data. We suggest strategies that reduce harmful tech stresses and encourage healthy detachment to increase employee happiness and organizational efficiency. Using a strict approach, we examine the intricate links between technostress and associated aspects. This study highlights the need for context-specific solutions for Pakistan's banking industry and provides insightful advice on fostering a positive workplace culture that grows with technology.

Impact of technostress and work-family conflict on turnover intention among nurses in Bangladesh: a moderation effect of perceived supervisor support

Impact of technostress and work-family conflict on turnover intention among nurses in Bangladesh: a moderation effect of perceived supervisor support

An integrated bibliometric analysis and systematic review modelling students’ technostress in higher education

ABSTRACT Technology integration in higher education has been widely recognised for its multifarious benefits. Nevertheless, arising from various factors, the prevalence of technostress poses a substantial impediment to learning effectiveness. In response, this study employs visualisation analysis and systematic review techniques to formulate a comprehensive model that encompasses variables related to technostress. Based on a systematic selection from 1,861 publications, 83 publications were included to model predictors and outcomes of higher-education students’ technostress. Our findings reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred growing academic interest in technostress, owing to concerns about the stressful and anxious nature of remote learning. Existing research on this topic predominantly relies on technology acceptance models and theories, with ongoing expansions incorporating variables from multiple research domains. In particular, external factors assume pivotal roles as predictors of technostress, along with subdimensions related to technostress. The impact of technostress can be observed in various aspects, such as learning experiences and performance outcomes. The findings of this study provide valuable insights for future research endeavours, facilitating further exploration and informing technology-enhanced teaching practice.

The impact of technostress on small business owners burnout: The mediating role of strain

The impact of technostress on small business owners burnout: The mediating role of strain

The impact of technostress on small business owners burnout: the mediating role of strain

The impact of technostress on small business owners burnout: the mediating role of strain

Navigating Technostress in primary schools: a study on teacher experiences, school support, and health.

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a global shift toward online education, which has increased the use of technology for communication, management, and remote teaching. This study aimed to investigate how primary school teachers in China used technology during the Pandemic and to what extent they experienced Technostress, as well as the impact of Technostress on work-family conflicts and technology-induced health issues. A survey was conducted among 1,172 primary school teachers, and the results revealed that teachers exhibited a moderate to a high level of Technostress during the Pandemic, with differences observed in gender, age, and headteacher duties. Furthermore, Technostress was positively correlated with work-family conflicts and technology-induced health issues. Technology use intensity was found to directly impact work-family conflicts and personal health and indirectly impact them via the agency effects of Technostress. School support moderated the indirect relationship between technology use intensity and work-family conflicts and health issues, with higher levels of school support leading to less apparent impacts of technology intensity on work-family conflicts and personal health via the agency effect of Technostress. These findings provide timely insights for post-pandemic teacher training and technology management and suggest the importance of school support in promoting sustainable educational development.

The Impact of Technostress and Ethical Tension on External Auditor’s Turnover Intention

The Impact of Technostress and Ethical Tension on External Auditor’s Turnover Intention

Factors Influencing Employee’s Well-Being and Job Performance: The Perspective of State-Owned Enterprise Employee

State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) play a crucial role in ensuring stability and control in Indonesia's economy, especially before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of public and private sector activities in Indonesia and other countries. To adapt to the accelerated digitization caused by the pandemic, SOEs must continue to grow and develop to achieve their targets and goals. The intended goal of this study is to inquire into the impact of technostress, perceived organizational support (POS), total reward systems (TRS), and work-life balance (WLB) on job performance, as mediated by employee well-being (study of SOEs employee). This research employs a quantitative approach to investigate the direct and indirect impacts of the dependent variable through the utilization of the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) technique. The study focuses on a sample of 263 respondents who are employees of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). This research highlights the role of perceived organizational support as a key driver of job performance mediated by employee well-being. The findings emphasize the significance of effectively engaging all generations, particularly Generation Y and Generation Z, within SOEs to strengthen job performance and accomplish organizational success. Furthermore, the study uncovers that employee well-being acts as a full mediator in constructing the connection between the variables under consideration and job performance. This finding emphasizes the importance for companies to continuously maintain perceived organizational support, ensuring that employees feel their well-being is being taken care of and their contributions are valued, especially for the younger generations (Generation Y and Z) who are the successors within the company.

Impact of technostress and information technology support on HRIS user satisfaction: a moderation study through technology self-efficacy

PurposeThis research aimed to determine the relationship between technostress and information technology support (IT) and HRIS-related user satisfaction. The study also investigated the moderating influence of technological self-efficacy on the links between technostress, IT support, and HRIS user satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachThis quantitative study used the deductive research approach. The study's population was HRIS users from 37 Malaysian public sector organizations. The judgmental sampling technique was employed, and the sample size was 490. Data analysis was conducted through SPSS and PLS-SEM.FindingsThe study showed that technostress is significantly associated with HRIS user satisfaction. While IT support, results show that literacy support, technological support, and technological involvement facilities significantly correlate with HRIS user satisfaction. In contrast, innovation support had an insignificant relationship with HRIS user satisfaction. The study also tested the moderation effect of technology self-efficacy in the relationships and found that technology self-efficacy only moderated the association of technostress and HRIS user satisfaction.Practical implicationsHR departments of government agencies can use the study's findings to understand to what extent HRIS system users are satisfied and what needs to be done to improve the HRIS system. The study also sheds light on the technological pressures that employees encounter.Originality/valuePresent study contributed to the literature by developing a study model of technostress, information technology support, technology self-efficacy, and HRIS user satisfaction. Further, the relationship of technostress with HRIS user satisfaction and the moderating effect of technology self-efficacy was explored for the first time, representing the study's novelty. The study also contributed to social cognitive theory and the theory of reasoned action by exploring attitudinal and behavioral aspects along with the cognitive aspects of users.

Impact of technostress on work-life balance

One of the many factors that contribute to the success of an organisation is the use of professional information technology (ICT). The pandemic situation of recent years has highlighted the benefits of using state-of-the-art ICT. However, exploring the negative consequences is a less popular topic. The aim of this research is to identify the most significant risks factors of technostress that threaten the balanced performance of employees at work and the possibility of work-life balance. In 2021, statistical correlations between risk factors for technostress were identified using SPSS 26, based on the opinions of 237 Hungarian higher education staff. Using SPSS AMOS 27, a proprietary model was built to test the impact of the most serious risks on personal and work life. The results show that three factors have the greatest impact on work-life balance, which also affect organisational performance. Loss of leisure time due to techno-overload and techno-invasion, and a feeling of techno-uncertainty due to lack of ICT competence cause a sense of threat. These compromise work-life balance and, at the same time, work performance. The mutually reinforcing negative effects influence the sense of well-being (happiness) at work, the feeling of job security and force employees to learn continuously.

IT Professionals' Turnaway Intention and the Role of Technostress

The supply of global information technology (IT) workers does not meet the demand of the industry. Therefore, researchers try to distill ways to increase and retain the IT talent pipeline. Ensuring that IT professionals remain in their IT careers is an essential element of such research. The influence of technostress on job turnover is evident. Yet, we know little about the impact of technostress on career turnaway and its interaction effects on the antecedents of turnaway intention. While job turnover may negatively impact a specific organization, career turnaway has negative implications for the industry. Losing IT professionals from the field means that additional efforts toward motivating, recruiting, educating, and preparing replacement talent are needed. By examining the dynamics of technostress on IT professionals' career turnaway intention (N=512), we reveal two critical findings. First, technostress reduces the IT professional's commitment to their IT career and increases exhaustion from their IT career experience. Second, technostress moderates IT professionals' commitment to their profession and career turnaway intentions. To remedy these concerns, we provide managerial advice and provide suggestions for future research.

Technostress at work during the COVID-19 lockdown phase (2020-2021): a systematic review of the literature.

Technostress is a psychosocial phenomenon associated with the use of technologies to the detriment of health, the same one that during the pandemic was accelerated in the work considering home confinement. This work aims to systematize the main research on the impact of technostress at work during the severe confinement stage of the pandemic, between the years 2020 and 2021, with the purpose of identify and evaluate its main determining factors. A systematic review of the literature was carried out during COVID-19, using the words "technostress work COVID-19." The works found focus mainly on analyzing the creators and inhibitors of technostress in workers, as well as the main consequences of the materialization of this technological risk associated with work performance during the stage of confinement by COVID-19. Techno invasion and techno overload were identified as the main techno stressors, with the main type of technostress appreciated in the literature being techno fatigue. Technostress is identified as a problem that had direct and relevant effects during the season of severe confinement and remote work at home due to COVID-19; highlighting techno fatigue as the most frequent type of stress, and techno stressors such as techno invasion and overload as the ones that presented the highest incidence.

The impact of technostress on organizational functioning

Research in recent years has shown that IT-enabled companies have higher productivity than their competitors. The new and latest technological solutions enrich the range of tools available to workers, ensuring that information is always available, communication is easier, and customers are better served. At the same time, these opportunities also create psycho-social pressures that strain workers’ working and private lives and can lead to further problems of techno-addiction. The study aims to investigate the relationships between the characteristics of technostress and their combined impact on trust within the organization between human-human and human-technology relationships. The quantitative study involved 531 respondents. Responses were analyzed using IBM SPSS 28 and IBM AMOS 27. The results show that there is undoubtedly a close relationship and a mutually generating effect between technostress characteristics, which substantially impact trust within the organization. However, trust is still stronger in personal relationships than in human-technology relationships. According to the respondents, the level of preparedness, technological knowledge, and expectations influence trust in the use of technology, which also affects performance and work-life balance. AcknowledgmentThis study is supported by the Research Centre at Faculty of Business and Economics (No. PE-GTK-GSKK A095000000-4) of University of Pannonia (Veszprém, Hungary).

How and When May Technostress Impact Workers' Psycho-Physical Health and Work-Family Interface? A Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy.

Although a growing body of research has analyzed the determinants and effects of technostress, it is still unclear how and when technostress would impact workers' psycho-physical health and work-family interface during the pandemic. To fill this gap, this study tests the mediating mechanisms and the boundary conditions associated with the impact of technostress on workers' psycho-physical well-being and work-family conflict. A total of 266 Italian workers completed online questionnaires measuring (traditional vs. remote) working modalities, technostress, fear of COVID-19, working excessively, psycho-physical distress, work-family conflict, loss of a loved one due to COVID-19, and resilience. Structural equation models were performed. Results indicated that technostress was positively related to psycho-physical distress and work-family conflict, as mediated by fear of COVID-19 and working excessively, respectively. The loss of a loved one exacerbated the effects of fear of COVID-19 on psycho-physical health, while resilience buffered the effects of working excessively on work-family conflict. Since numerous organizations intend to maintain remote working also after the COVID-19 emergency, it is crucial to study this phenomenon during its peaks of adoption, to prevent its potential negative outcomes. The implications of these findings for theory and practice are discussed.

Impact of Technostress on Withdrawal Behavior and Workplace Flourishing

The COVID-19 pandemic's ripple effects on the digital work sphere have been widely recognized and debated. But little is known about how much technostress influences workers' overall well-being (i.e., workplace flourishing) during the pandemic. This paper (drawing on social roles and self-efficacy theories) investigates the effect of technostress on flourishing at work and withdrawal behavior and the contextual roles of gender, generation, and work practices. Survey data were randomly obtained from workers in various educational sectors in Saudi Arabia (n = 538) and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and multi-group moderation analysis. Accordingly, technostress positively affects work withdrawal behavior and reduces workplace flourishing. Variations in these associations were observed based on generational cohorts and work flexibility or mode. But no significant gender variations occurred. This study provides managerial insights and strategies to deal with technostress's ripple effect due to restrictions and measures provoked by the pandemic.

The Impact of Technostress on Teacher Educators’ Work–Family Conflict and Life Satisfaction While Working Remotely during COVID-19 in Pakistan

This study aims to examine the relationship between teacher educators’ technostress, work–family conflict, and life satisfaction while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. The sample consists of 292 respondents, 151 (51.7%) male and 141 (48.3%) female teacher educators, who participated in this study. Three scales, the Technostress Scale (TS), Work–Family Conflict Scale (WFCS), and the Life-Satisfaction Scale (LS), were administered to determine the impact of demographic variables (i.e., gender, age, qualification) on teachers’ technostress, work–family conflict, and life satisfaction. The findings of the study suggest a positive correlation of technostress with work–family conflict (r = 381) and life satisfaction (r = 0.449). Moreover, gender differences were found in the variables of technostress (t = −3.506, df = 290, p ≤ 0.05), work–family conflict (t = −2.834, df = 290, p ≤ 0.05), and life satisfaction (t = −2.916, df = 290, p ≤ 0.05). The present research is a baseline study within the context of Pakistan to report the findings in terms of educators’ technostress, keeping balance between work and life, and status of life satisfaction as a result of teaching virtually while working from home during the pandemic.

Impact of Techno-Stress on Job Satisfaction of Teachers in Government Schools in Sri Lanka: Evidence from Kurunegala Educational Zone

The way young people learn has altered due to mobile device use. Children readily use a smartphone or tablet PC to obtain information, regardless of age or location. According to studies, adopting mobile technology for learning enables young children to take charge of their education, engage in more active social interactions, access more resources, increase their research analysis abilities, and think critically and solve problems more efficiently. Conversely, teachers are stressed as these young students become more acclimated to learning with mobile technology. Techno-stress is the term for this. Five factors—techno-overload, techno-invasion, techno-complexity, techno-insecurity, and techno-uncertainty—are thought to contribute to techno-stress, which is defined as a person's incapacity to deal with new technology healthily. This study looks at how technical stress affects teachers' job satisfaction in Sri Lanka's public schools, particularly in the Kurunegala Educational Zone. Furthermore, determining the effects of techno-creators on government school teachers' job satisfaction are the sub objectives of the study. The study's target population is Sri Lankan government school teachers, and the sample consists of 350 government school teachers in the Kurunegala Education Zone. Convenient sampling strategy was utilized, and data was collected through a questionnaire. The findings showed that factors considered under the study impacted teachers' job satisfaction. The results have some repercussions for the teachers and administrators of Sri Lankan government schools, particularly those who intend to integrate mobile technology (such as digital textbooks) into the classrooms. Teachers must comprehend how mobile technology works, how it may be used for instruction, and how useful it is for pupils if they are to minimize technological stress.

Investigating the role of technostress, cognitive appraisal and coping strategies on students' learning performance in higher education: a multidimensional transactional theory of stress approach

PurposeCOVID-19 has galvanized educational institutions to rapidly adopt technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment where students are required to use and manage a diverse set of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Using the Transactional Theory of Stress, the authors investigate the impact of a TEL environment on students' stress, cognitive appraisal and coping. The authors also explore how the TEL environment impacts students' learning satisfaction and performance.Design/methodology/approachA survey using Qualtrics was developed to collect the data from 275 undergraduate students. The authors used the Partial Least Squares (PLS) through SmartPLS for instrument validation and testing of the structural model. The reflective-formative model was applied as the measures used to evaluate the first-order constructs are unidimensional, and the second-order construct has a formative measurement.FindingsStudents experienced technology-related stress due to ICT use. The negative appraisal such as harm and threat leads to emotion-focused coping among students, while the constructive appraisal such as positive and challenge leads to problem-focused coping. Emotion-focused coping was found to negatively impact learning satisfaction, while problem-focused coping was found to positively impact satisfaction. The authors also found that students with a higher level of experience with online and hybrid classes, higher confidence in computer usage and lower anxiety are better equipped to deal with technostress.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides the first comprehensive technostress model in the IS literature that uses formative modeling to explain technostress creators and inhibitors and emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping, as was intended by the Transactional Theory of Stress. The result allows for rethinking TEL environment by drawing attention to strategies that can reduce technological complexity and uncertainty. For future research, it may be helpful to perform a longitudinal or experimental study to obtain rigorous causal inference. Originality/valueThere is limited research on the impact of technostress in the field of higher education. Also, technostress has been used inconsistently in Information Systems research, with the majority of research focusing on technostress creators and inhibitors only. This research incorporates all the constructs of the original theory adding new knowledge to the IS literature about the nature and causes of stress created by the use of technology.

Correction to: Impact of Technostress on Continuance Intentions to Use Mobile Technology

Correction to: Impact of Technostress on Continuance Intentions to Use Mobile Technology