ArticleEurope's journal of psychology2022
Technostress, Coping, and Anxious and Depressive Symptomatology in University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Instruments used to measure well-being, ill-being, and health-related lifestyle behaviors in students attending Italian universities: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
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- The Impact of Technostress Generated by Artificial Intelligence on the Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Positive and Negative Affect.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Mental health in the "era" of artificial intelligence: technostress and the perceived impact on anxiety and depressive disorders-an SEM analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Predicting technostress: The Big Five model of personality and subjective well-being.PloS one · 2024Article
- Statistical methods to estimate the impact of remote teaching on university students' performance.Quality & quantity · 2023Article
- Social support as a mediator in the relationship between technostress or academic stress and health: analysis by gender among university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Technostress and academic motivation: direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Persistence of Lockdown Consequences on Children: A Cross-sectional Comparative Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Technology-Enhanced Learning and Well-being: a Contribution to the Validation of a Measure to Assess University Students' Technostress in the Italian Context.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2022Article
- Perceived Past and Current COVID-19-Stressors, Coping Strategies and Psychological Health among University Students: A Mediated-Moderated Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Psychological Health Conditions and COVID-19-Related Stressors Among University Students: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
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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