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14 - Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Technostress

from Part V - Emerging Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2023

By
Monideepa Tarafdar ,
Henri Pirkkalainen  and
Markus Salo
Edited by
Laurent M. Lapierre  and
Sir Cary Cooper
Laurent M. Lapierre
Affiliation:
University of Ottawa
Sir Cary Cooper
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
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Summary

Recent years have seen a considerable body of scholarly work on the phenomenon of ‘technostress’. Expressed briefly, technostress is the stress individuals experience because of their use of information technology (IT). It happens when they are not able to deal with the demands placed by IT use in a healthy manner. The literature over the last decade has developed a good understanding of why technostress occurs in both work and non-work–related use of IT, and its adverse effects. Scholarly interest has now turned to how such effects can be mitigated and how individuals can cope with technostress, which is the focus of this chapter. We examine technostress mitigation and coping in both the work and non-work settings.

Keywords

well-beingtechnostresscopingmitigation
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Organizational Stress and Well-Being , pp. 441 - 456
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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