ArticleJournal of business research2022
Examining the relationship between fear of COVID-19, intolerance for uncertainty, and cyberloafing: A mediational model.
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- Validation of the Farsi version of the cyberloafing scale in Iranian university students.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Impact of Media-Induced Uncertainty on Mental Health: Narrative-Based Perspective.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Development and psychometric evaluation of the Employee's Workplace Cyberloafing Scale (EWCS).Heliyon · 2024Article
- The Association Between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Mobile Phone Addiction Among Overseas Chinese Students During COVID-19: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Stress and Rumination.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Intolerance of uncertainty and mental health in China "Post-pandemic" age: The mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation.PloS one · 2024Article
- Challenge-obstacle stressors and cyberloafing among higher vocational education students: the moderating role of smartphone addiction and Maladaptive.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- An Empirical Analysis of the Mediating Role of Fear of COVID-19 Between Telecommuting and Employees Retention.Employee responsibilities and rights journal · 2023Article
- Effect of total population, population density and weighted population density on the spread of Covid-19 in Malaysia.PloS one · 2023Article
- Effects of chronic stress on smartphone addiction: A moderated mediation model.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- How Fear of External Threats Plays Roles: An Examination of Supervisors' Trait Anger, Abusive Supervision, Subordinate Burnout and CCB.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
After the COVID-19 pandemic began, organizations had to pivot and move to online remote work. As companies moved to digital platforms and technologies for remote working, a key concern was the increase in workplace withdrawal behaviors during the pandemic, including cyberloafing, a form of workplace deviance. Cyberloafing can be described as the action of using the internet for non-work-related activities or personal use during working hours. Given its effect on organizational effectiveness and efficiency, organizations must take measures to minimize cyberloafing. We examined how two factors-fear of COVID-19 and intolerance for uncertainty-were related to cyberloafing during the third lockdown in Israel. A sample of 322 adults who were enrolled in professional courses at a university in Israel were surveyed. Based on Conservation of Resources Theory, our findings suggest that distress significantly mediated the relationship between fear of COVID-19, intolerance for uncertainty, and cyberloafing. In an attempt to deal with the stress and depletion of personal resources during the COVID-19 lockdown, individuals engaged in cyberloafing as a way to handle the stress. Our results suggest that organizations should take measures to reduce fear and uncertainty in order to decrease distress, which, in turn, will reduce cyberloafing.
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