Technostress: negative effect on performance and possible mitigations

By Monideepa Tarafdar, Ellen Bolman Pullins, T. S. Ragu-Nathan. Information Systems Journal, 2015

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology

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In Gender Studies

1. Anuragini Shirish
2. Shirish C. Srivastava
3. Shalini Chandra
4. Cary L. Cooper
5. Sun Sun Lim

In Information Systems and Management

1. Shalini Chandra
2. Shalini Talwar
3. Anuragini Shirish
4. Shirish C. Srivastava
5. Samuel Chng
6. Monideepa Tarafdar
7. Cary L. Cooper
8. Brigid Trenerry

In Social Psychology

1. Anuragini Shirish
2. Shirish C. Srivastava
3. Shalini Chandra
4. Cary L. Cooper
5. Jean-François Stich
6. Samuel Chng
7. Monideepa Tarafdar
8. Brigid Trenerry

Citations in the corpus

• Preparing Workplaces for Digital Transformation: An Integrative Review and Framework of Multi-Level Factors (2021, background): “…digital technologies, stress can result in a phenomenon called technostress, defined as stress that individuals experience due to their use of technology and the inability to cope or deal with these new digital technologies in a healthy manner (Tarafdar et al., 2015; Nisafani et al., 2020).”
• Does enterprise social media use promote employee creativity and well-being? (2021, background): “This increased level of exhaustion re-sults in negative psychological consequences, such as fatigue, damp-ening of the individual ’ s level of satisfaction and commitment, loss of interest, and trust (Tarafdar et al., 2015; Maier et al., 2015).”
• Technostress creators and job outcomes: theorising the moderating influence of personality traits (2015, methodology): “…as perceived work overload and information fatigue, resulting in demoralised, demotivated and frustrated employees resulting in negative performance (e.g. Tarafdar et al., 2007; Ragu-Nathan et al., 2008; Tarafdar et al., 2010; Ayyagari et al., 2011; Tarafdar et al., 2011; Tarafdar et al., 2014).”
• The technostress trifecta ‐ techno eustress, techno distress and design: Theoretical directions and an agenda for research (2019, background): “Factors that affect the level of techno‐stressors include the attitude of the individual's toward IS (Barley et al., 2011), workload, work complexity, digital literacy, and user involvement (Barber & Santuzzi, 2015; Chen et al., 2009; Korunka & Vitouch, 1999; Tarafdar et al., 2010, 2015).”