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Technostress, Coping, and Anxious and Depressive Symptomatology in University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic raised many challenges for university staff and students, including the need to work from home, which resulted in a greater reliance on technology. We collected questionnaire data from university students (N = 894) in three European countries: Greece, Italy, and the United King...

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Autores principales: Galvin, John, Evans, Michael Scott, Nelson, Kenisha, Richards, Gareth, Mavritsaki, Eirini, Giovazolias, Theodoros, Koutra, Katerina, Mellor, Ben, Zurlo, Maria Clelia, Smith, Andrew Paul, Vallone, Federica
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9632553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348822
http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.4725
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author Galvin, John
Evans, Michael Scott
Nelson, Kenisha
Richards, Gareth
Mavritsaki, Eirini
Giovazolias, Theodoros
Koutra, Katerina
Mellor, Ben
Zurlo, Maria Clelia
Smith, Andrew Paul
Vallone, Federica
author_facet Galvin, John
Evans, Michael Scott
Nelson, Kenisha
Richards, Gareth
Mavritsaki, Eirini
Giovazolias, Theodoros
Koutra, Katerina
Mellor, Ben
Zurlo, Maria Clelia
Smith, Andrew Paul
Vallone, Federica
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description The COVID-19 pandemic raised many challenges for university staff and students, including the need to work from home, which resulted in a greater reliance on technology. We collected questionnaire data from university students (N = 894) in three European countries: Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Data were collected between 7th April 2020 and 19th June 2020, representing a period covering the first lockdown and university closures in these countries and across Europe generally. We tested the hypotheses that technology-related stressors (techno-overload, work-home conflict, techno-ease, techno-reliability, techno-sociality, and pace of change) would be associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and that coping styles (problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidance) would mediate these relationships. Results showed significant positive associations between techno-overload, work-home conflict and anxiety and depressive symptoms, and significant negative associations between techno-reliability, techno-ease and anxiety and depressive symptoms. A significant negative association was found between techno-sociality and depressive symptoms but not anxiety symptoms. No evidence was found for an association between pace of change and anxiety or depressive symptoms. Multiple mediation analyses revealed significant direct effects of techno-overload, work-home conflict and techno-ease on anxiety symptoms, and of work-home conflict and techno-ease on depressive symptoms. Work-home conflict had significant indirect effects on anxiety and depressive symptoms through avoidance coping. Techno-overload and techno-ease both had significant indirect effects on anxiety symptoms through problem- and emotion-focused coping. Techno-ease also had a significant indirect effect on depressive symptoms through problem-focused coping. The findings add to the body of evidence on technostress amongst university students and provide knowledge on how technostress translates through coping strategies into anxious and depressive symptoms during the disruption caused by the outbreak of a pandemic disease.
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spelling pubmed-96325532022-11-07 Technostress, Coping, and Anxious and Depressive Symptomatology in University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic Galvin, John Evans, Michael Scott Nelson, Kenisha Richards, Gareth Mavritsaki, Eirini Giovazolias, Theodoros Koutra, Katerina Mellor, Ben Zurlo, Maria Clelia Smith, Andrew Paul Vallone, Federica Eur J Psychol Research Reports The COVID-19 pandemic raised many challenges for university staff and students, including the need to work from home, which resulted in a greater reliance on technology. We collected questionnaire data from university students (N = 894) in three European countries: Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Data were collected between 7th April 2020 and 19th June 2020, representing a period covering the first lockdown and university closures in these countries and across Europe generally. We tested the hypotheses that technology-related stressors (techno-overload, work-home conflict, techno-ease, techno-reliability, techno-sociality, and pace of change) would be associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and that coping styles (problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidance) would mediate these relationships. Results showed significant positive associations between techno-overload, work-home conflict and anxiety and depressive symptoms, and significant negative associations between techno-reliability, techno-ease and anxiety and depressive symptoms. A significant negative association was found between techno-sociality and depressive symptoms but not anxiety symptoms. No evidence was found for an association between pace of change and anxiety or depressive symptoms. Multiple mediation analyses revealed significant direct effects of techno-overload, work-home conflict and techno-ease on anxiety symptoms, and of work-home conflict and techno-ease on depressive symptoms. Work-home conflict had significant indirect effects on anxiety and depressive symptoms through avoidance coping. Techno-overload and techno-ease both had significant indirect effects on anxiety symptoms through problem- and emotion-focused coping. Techno-ease also had a significant indirect effect on depressive symptoms through problem-focused coping. The findings add to the body of evidence on technostress amongst university students and provide knowledge on how technostress translates through coping strategies into anxious and depressive symptoms during the disruption caused by the outbreak of a pandemic disease. PsychOpen 2022-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9632553/ /pubmed/36348822 http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.4725 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Galvin, John
Evans, Michael Scott
Nelson, Kenisha
Richards, Gareth
Mavritsaki, Eirini
Giovazolias, Theodoros
Koutra, Katerina
Mellor, Ben
Zurlo, Maria Clelia
Smith, Andrew Paul
Vallone, Federica
Technostress, Coping, and Anxious and Depressive Symptomatology in University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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title_full_unstemmed Technostress, Coping, and Anxious and Depressive Symptomatology in University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_short Technostress, Coping, and Anxious and Depressive Symptomatology in University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic
title_sort technostress, coping, and anxious and depressive symptomatology in university students during the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9632553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348822
http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.4725
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