Blood Pressure Measurement: A Classic of Stress Measurement and Its Role in Technostress Research

Fischer, Thomas; Halmerbauer, Gerhard; Meyr, Eva; Riedl, René

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“…Multiple studies have demonstrated the severe consequences of technostress for employees and organizations, including lower productivity [12, 26], lower job performance [4, 5], increased work exhaustion [5, 21], and increased risk of burnout [27]. Furthermore, technostress impacts the human body by triggering physical stress reactions such as the release of stress hormones and increased blood pressure [22, 23]. Understanding the association between workers’ age and daily work stressors such as technostress provides an avenue for developing preventive measures to lower the risk of age-related diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases.…”

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“…Adverse consequences of technostress in individuals include decreased well-being [20], increased exhaustion [5, 21], and physiological stress reactions such as the release of stress hormones and increased blood pressure [22, 23]. In organizational settings, exposure to techno-stressors has been related to decreased job commitment [6, 12, 24, 25], lower usage continuance intention [19, 20], lower productivity [12, 26], lower job performance [4, 5], increased job stress [26], lower job satisfaction [6, 12, 25], increased risk of job burn-out, and decreased job engagement [27].…”

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The mediating role of coping behavior on the age-technostress relationship: A longitudinal multilevel mediation model

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This study seeks to explain the interplay between chronological age and technology-related strain through techno-stressors and coping strategy choices in organizational settings. Grounded in Lazarus´ stress theory, theories of cognitive aging, the life span theory of control and socioemotional selectivity theory, this study argues that even though older workers are more prone to techno-stressors, aging is connected to gaining coping skills, which in turn reduce technology-related strain over time. Understanding these processes enables modifying employees’ coping strategy choices and mitigating negative outcomes of technostress at the workplace. Longitudinal data from 1,216 employees over a time period of 8 months were used to perform multilevel mediation modeling. The findings reveal that age was negatively related to technology-related strain. The link between age and technology-related strain was explained through behavioral disengagement, which older workers used less than younger workers. Active coping and social coping did not act as mediators of this relationship across time points. These relationships were stable after controlling for dependency on technology.

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The mediating role of coping behavior on the age-technostress relationship: A longitudinal multilevel mediation model

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“…Ennis (2005) claims that technostress results in physical, emotional, behavioral and psychological harms. Whereas conditions such as acute pain in different parts of the body and high blood pressure represent physical ailments, the development of depression and anxiety in individuals due to increasing angst and fear are emotional conditions (Fischer et al , 2017). Affected employees might develop the perception that they will not be able to meet the ever-increasing and ever-changing expectations as a result of high techno-work load, uncertainty and complexity of work-related tasks (Ayyagari et al , 2011; Tarafdar et al , 2017).…”

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The moderating roles of technological self-efficacy and time management in the technostress and employee performance relationship through burnout

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2020

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PurposeThe ongoing dispute as to whether using technology extensively at work may cause harm continues to gain momentum. Thus, the need for more research on the harmful effect of using technology at work and on the indirect effects on work performance is needed. The call for additional moderators in technostress research is still ongoing. The research contributes to the abovementioned gaps in the literature by analyzing a model with two moderators.Design/methodology/approachThe sample population was chosen randomly from the lists provided by civil-servant unions and the chamber of commerce subsidiaries in the northwest region of Turkey. The employees received letters that explained the purpose of the study; the questionnaires sent to them. Out of 500 forms, 328 were returned. PLS-SEM technique was selected for hypothesis testing.FindingsThe results revealed support for all the hypotheses, and proposed moderators can be used to mitigate the harms of technostress and burnout. The findings have implications for both theory and practice.Research limitations/implicationsThe limitation of this research is its sample characteristics. Due to the cross-sectional nature of the data set, it is difficult to claim causality. Therefore, readers should use caution when extending generalizations to a broader population. As for the theoretical implications, the interest in the challenges posed by various technologies in the workplace on human psychology and health over the long term is quite new. And there is still room for other mediating and moderating mechanism for the interplay between technostress and related outcomes.Practical implicationsOne of the practical implications is that technology at work might have the potential to create stress, sometimes greater than its benefits. The effects that might be created by other sources of stress when combined with stress related to technology in the workplace should also be taken seriously. There are tools to reduce the harm caused by technostress that practitioners could make use of such as time-management interventions.Originality/valueThe dispute whether using technology extensively at work may cause harm rather than advantage continues to confuse people, and with time it is gaining momentum. Thus, there is necessity for more research on the harms of technology, and especially on the indirect effects on work performance. Second, the vast technostress literature seems to neglect to discern task performance from contextual one as the dependent variable. Lastly, the call for additional moderators in technostress research is still prevailing. The research contributes to the abovementioned gaps in the literature by analyzing a model with two moderators.

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“…Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass Multitas king zu Stress, Burnout und Depression führen kann. Weiter ist belegt, dass die permanente kognitive Verarbeitung von Informationen das Herz-Kreislauf-System der Benutzer ungünstig beeinflussen kann [52]; Studien zeigen etwa Blutdruckanstiege [53] oder Effekte auf die Herzrate und die Herzratenvariabilität [54,55]. Weiter zeigt die Forschung, dass die gesund heitlichen und ökonomischen Auswirkungen der heutigen Unterbrechungs kultur beträchtlich sein können.…”

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2023

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The topic of resilience has received attention in the behavioural sciences since the 1950s. In particular, the Kauai Longitudinal Study by Emmy Werner was groundbreaking in terms of resilience research. In recent years, this research has also attracted the interest of the consumer sciences. Although fundamentally scarce, corresponding research either deals with the resilience of consumers in the context of extreme events such as floods (Marg 2016) and terrorist attacks (Rew & Minor 2018) or with recurring stress factors, which can be located, for example, in the context of analogue or digital consumption. Against this backdrop, this book aims to highlight the state of research in the field of ‘consumer resilience’ and provide impetus for further research. With contributions by Anja Achtziger | Carmela Aprea | Maja Eilender | Martin Endreß | Arnd Florack | Anja Göritz | Stefanie Graefe | Peter Kenning | Jörn Lamla | Kathrin Loer | René Riedl | Christiane Rohleder | Sarah K. Schäfer | Hanna Schramm-Klein

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Blood Pressure Measurement: A Classic of Stress Measurement and Its Role in Technostress Research

Cited by 15 publications

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The mediating role of coping behavior on the age-technostress relationship: A longitudinal multilevel mediation model

The mediating role of coping behavior on the age-technostress relationship: A longitudinal multilevel mediation model

The moderating roles of technological self-efficacy and time management in the technostress and employee performance relationship through burnout

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