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Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health

INTRODUCTION: Research has well demonstrated that the pandemic entailed several implications among university students worldwide in terms of increased use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), technostress, disruptions in academic goals and motivation processes, and growing psycholog...

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Autores principales: Vallone, Federica, Galvin, John, Cattaneo Della Volta, Maria Francesca, Akhtar, Athfah, Chua, Stephanie, Ghio, Emilie, Giovazolias, Theodoros, Kazakou, Zoe, Kritikou, Marina, Koutra, Katerina, Kovacevic, Sanja, Lee-Treweek, Geraldine, Mašková, Ivana, Mavritsaki, Eirini, Nastic, Jelena, Plassova, Michala, Stuchlíková, Iva, Zurlo, Maria Clelia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10348917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37457063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1211134
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author Vallone, Federica
Galvin, John
Cattaneo Della Volta, Maria Francesca
Akhtar, Athfah
Chua, Stephanie
Ghio, Emilie
Giovazolias, Theodoros
Kazakou, Zoe
Kritikou, Marina
Koutra, Katerina
Kovacevic, Sanja
Lee-Treweek, Geraldine
Mašková, Ivana
Mavritsaki, Eirini
Nastic, Jelena
Plassova, Michala
Stuchlíková, Iva
Zurlo, Maria Clelia
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Galvin, John
Cattaneo Della Volta, Maria Francesca
Akhtar, Athfah
Chua, Stephanie
Ghio, Emilie
Giovazolias, Theodoros
Kazakou, Zoe
Kritikou, Marina
Koutra, Katerina
Kovacevic, Sanja
Lee-Treweek, Geraldine
Mašková, Ivana
Mavritsaki, Eirini
Nastic, Jelena
Plassova, Michala
Stuchlíková, Iva
Zurlo, Maria Clelia
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description INTRODUCTION: Research has well demonstrated that the pandemic entailed several implications among university students worldwide in terms of increased use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), technostress, disruptions in academic goals and motivation processes, and growing psychological suffering. Responding to the new research need to go in-depth into the processes linking technostress and motivation dimensions to inform current research/interventions, the present study aimed to explore the direct effects of perceived Technostress dimensions (Techno-Overload, Work-Home Conflict, Pace of Change, Techno-Ease, Techno-Reliability, and Techno-Sociality) and Academic Motivation dimensions (Amotivation, Intrinsic, and Extrinsic Motivation dimensions) on students' perceived levels of Anxiety/Depression and test the potential indirect effect (mediating role) of Academic Motivation dimensions in the associations between Technostress and psychological health conditions. METHODS: Overall, 1,541 students from five European countries (Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Serbia, United Kingdom) completed a survey comprising a Background Information Form, the Technostress Scale, the Academic Motivation Scale-College, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Hayes' PROCESS tool was used to test direct and indirect (mediating) effects. RESULTS: Data revealed that Techno-Overload, Work-Home Conflict, Amotivation, and Extrinsic Motivation-Introjected had a direct negative effect, whereas Techno-Ease, Techno-Reliability, Techno-Sociality, all Intrinsic Motivation dimensions, and Extrinsic Motivation-Identified had a direct protective role for students' psychological health. The significant indirect role of motivation dimensions in the associations between Technostress dimensions and Anxiety/Depression was fully supported. DISCUSSION: Findings allow gaining further insight into the pathways of relationships between technostress, motivation, and psychological health, to be used in the current phase, featured by the complete restoration of face-to-face contacts, to inform the development of tailored research and interventions, which address lights and shadows of the technology use, and which take into account the necessity to enhance its potentials yet without impairing students' motivation and psychological health.
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spelling pubmed-103489172023-07-16 Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health Vallone, Federica Galvin, John Cattaneo Della Volta, Maria Francesca Akhtar, Athfah Chua, Stephanie Ghio, Emilie Giovazolias, Theodoros Kazakou, Zoe Kritikou, Marina Koutra, Katerina Kovacevic, Sanja Lee-Treweek, Geraldine Mašková, Ivana Mavritsaki, Eirini Nastic, Jelena Plassova, Michala Stuchlíková, Iva Zurlo, Maria Clelia Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: Research has well demonstrated that the pandemic entailed several implications among university students worldwide in terms of increased use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), technostress, disruptions in academic goals and motivation processes, and growing psychological suffering. Responding to the new research need to go in-depth into the processes linking technostress and motivation dimensions to inform current research/interventions, the present study aimed to explore the direct effects of perceived Technostress dimensions (Techno-Overload, Work-Home Conflict, Pace of Change, Techno-Ease, Techno-Reliability, and Techno-Sociality) and Academic Motivation dimensions (Amotivation, Intrinsic, and Extrinsic Motivation dimensions) on students' perceived levels of Anxiety/Depression and test the potential indirect effect (mediating role) of Academic Motivation dimensions in the associations between Technostress and psychological health conditions. METHODS: Overall, 1,541 students from five European countries (Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Serbia, United Kingdom) completed a survey comprising a Background Information Form, the Technostress Scale, the Academic Motivation Scale-College, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Hayes' PROCESS tool was used to test direct and indirect (mediating) effects. RESULTS: Data revealed that Techno-Overload, Work-Home Conflict, Amotivation, and Extrinsic Motivation-Introjected had a direct negative effect, whereas Techno-Ease, Techno-Reliability, Techno-Sociality, all Intrinsic Motivation dimensions, and Extrinsic Motivation-Identified had a direct protective role for students' psychological health. The significant indirect role of motivation dimensions in the associations between Technostress dimensions and Anxiety/Depression was fully supported. DISCUSSION: Findings allow gaining further insight into the pathways of relationships between technostress, motivation, and psychological health, to be used in the current phase, featured by the complete restoration of face-to-face contacts, to inform the development of tailored research and interventions, which address lights and shadows of the technology use, and which take into account the necessity to enhance its potentials yet without impairing students' motivation and psychological health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10348917/ /pubmed/37457063 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1211134 Text en Copyright © 2023 Vallone, Galvin, Cattaneo Della Volta, Akhtar, Chua, Ghio, Giovazolias, Kazakou, Kritikou, Koutra, Kovacevic, Lee-Treweek, Mašková, Mavritsaki, Nastic, Plassova, Stuchlíková and Zurlo. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Psychology
Vallone, Federica
Galvin, John
Cattaneo Della Volta, Maria Francesca
Akhtar, Athfah
Chua, Stephanie
Ghio, Emilie
Giovazolias, Theodoros
Kazakou, Zoe
Kritikou, Marina
Koutra, Katerina
Kovacevic, Sanja
Lee-Treweek, Geraldine
Mašková, Ivana
Mavritsaki, Eirini
Nastic, Jelena
Plassova, Michala
Stuchlíková, Iva
Zurlo, Maria Clelia
Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health
title Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health
title_full Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health
title_fullStr Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health
title_full_unstemmed Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health
title_short Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health
title_sort technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10348917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37457063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1211134
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