Giuseppe La Torre|Veronica De Leonardis|Marta Chiappetta
Technostress: how does it affect the productivity and life of an individual? Results of an observational study
Sapienza University of Rome|Sapienza University of Rome|Sapienza University of Rome
technostress emergent phenomenon related pervasive use technology associated increased computerisation digitalisation seen recent decades crosssectional observational study aims investigate impact stress use technologies ie technostress productivity life individual crosssectional study data collected using previously proposed validated questionnaire questionnaire translated italian transformed online format google docs form questionnaire associated link qr code also available paper format disseminated manually use email social networks facebook twitter study sample included 313 individuals 546 women mean age sample participants 347 years dependent variables technstressors ie technooverload technoinvasion technocomplexity technoinsecurity technouncertainty role stressors ie role overload role conflict productivity multivariate analysis technooverload significantly associated female gender 0128 p 0018 unemployment 0303 p 0001 technoinvasion significantly associated female gender 0098 p 0081 degreelevel education 0149 p 0008 technocomplexity significantly associated female gender 0107 p 0057 married 0113 p 0046 technouncertainty significantly associated unemployment 0337 p 0001 role overload significantly associated female gender 0160 p 0014 productivity significantly associated degreelevel education 0125 p 0057 observational study evaluated phenomenon workrelated nonworkrelated technostress 313 individuals aged 16 65 years present study investigated impact five technostressors two role stressors productivity results indicate different technostressors significantly associated female gender degreelevel education unemployment research field required better understand clarify epidemiology clinical presentation determinants technostress