Deliberate or Instinctive? Proactive and Reactive Coping for Technostress

Abstract

His research interests include technostress, dark side of technology use, and user behavior. He has published completed research articles in outlets such as Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS),

The Motivations for and Well-Being Implications of Social Media Use at Work among Millennials and Members of Former Generations

“…Furthermore, we compared these with organizational data and the representative national data set. In line with prior studies regarding younger employees experiencing higher levels of IT-related strain [ 19 , 20 ], our findings demonstrated that millennials used social media more for work purposes and experienced higher technostress and burnout in both samples as well as higher psychological distress in the nationwide sample compared to former generations. Especially women and those millennials who used social media daily experienced higher technostress in the expert organizations and those working remotely in the Finnish workforce data.…”

“…The work life is getting more technology intensive and technostress, in other words, technology related stress that employees find challenging to cope with, is also a pervasive issue in organizations [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ], which has been further provoked by the COVID-19 [ 18 ]. Remarkably, younger employees are associated with higher levels of information technology (IT) related strain [ 19 ] and technostress compared to their older colleagues [ 20 ]. Technology can also stimulate burnout [ 21 ].…”

“…Nevertheless, the positive consequences of digitalization exist, and nearly a fifth of Finnish employees feel that it has decreased the strain and over half think that it has increased the work productivity and transparency [ 22 ]. Pirkkalainen and colleagues also pointed out that normative pressure and information load enhance IT engagement, which is higher for younger employees [ 19 ]. IT engagement can also foster IT enabled work productivity [ 19 ].…”

“…Pirkkalainen and colleagues also pointed out that normative pressure and information load enhance IT engagement, which is higher for younger employees [ 19 ]. IT engagement can also foster IT enabled work productivity [ 19 ].…”

Technostress Dark Side of Technology in the Workplace: A Scientometric Analysis

“…Given the need for greater disciplinary cooperation between the psychological and technological approach to technostress, at a second research level a co-authorship analysis was carried out at the country, institution, and author levels. The results obtained show that, at the country level, the United States dominates knowledge production in technostress, but at the institutional level, with a critical research mass, the University of Lancaster is noteworthy and, in particular, the position reached by Tarafdar [5,22,29,[101][102][103][104][105][106][107][108][109] among the prolific authors. In addition to dominating research with a technological focus, this English University and its researcher achieve high centrality levels, which allows powerful articulation within the academic network, given the multiple co-authorships that they maintain in a distributed way.…”