TY - JOUR
T1 - Technostress and academic motivation
T2 - direct and indirect effects on university students' psychological health
AU - Vallone, Federica
AU - Galvin, John
AU - Cattaneo Della Volta, Maria Francesca
AU - Akhtar, Athfah
AU - Chua, Stephanie
AU - Ghio, Emilie
AU - Giovazolias, Theodoros
AU - Kazakou, Zoe
AU - Kritikou, Marina
AU - Koutra, Katerina
AU - Kovacevic, Sanja
AU - Lee-Treweek, Geraldine
AU - Mašková, Ivana
AU - Mavritsaki, Eirini
AU - Nastic, Jelena
AU - Plassova, Michala
AU - Stuchlíková, Iva
AU - Zurlo, Maria Clelia
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the STUDENT-WELL Project (Erasmus+ Project; Grant 2020-1-UK01-KA226-HE-094622).
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Vallone, Galvin, Cattaneo Della Volta, Akhtar, Chua, Ghio, Giovazolias, Kazakou, Kritikou, Koutra, Kovacevic, Lee-Treweek, Mašková, Mavritsaki, Nastic, Plassova, Stuchlíková and Zurlo.
PY - 2023/6/30
Y1 - 2023/6/30
N2 - 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 direct effects of perceived Technostress dimensions (Techno-Overload, Work-Home Conflict, Pace of Change, Techno-Ease, Techno-Reliability, Techno-Sociality) and Academic Motivation dimensions (Amotivation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation dimensions) on students' perceived levels of Anxiety/Depression, and to test the potential indirect effect (mediating role) of Academic Motivation dimensions in the associations between Technostress and psychological health conditions. 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. 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. 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.
AB - 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 direct effects of perceived Technostress dimensions (Techno-Overload, Work-Home Conflict, Pace of Change, Techno-Ease, Techno-Reliability, Techno-Sociality) and Academic Motivation dimensions (Amotivation, Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation dimensions) on students' perceived levels of Anxiety/Depression, and to test the potential indirect effect (mediating role) of Academic Motivation dimensions in the associations between Technostress and psychological health conditions. 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. 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. 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.
KW - academic motivation
KW - Information and communication technologies
KW - mediating effects
KW - Protective factors
KW - psychological health
KW - Risk factors
KW - Technostress
KW - university students
UR - https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/14477/
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1211134
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1211134
M3 - Article
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 14
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
M1 - 1211134
ER -