Stress Induced by Technology Abuse in the students

Abstract

Aim: Generally, this research strategy assesses how excessive use of technology impacts on the stress of students from a psychological perspective, learning performance, and functioning. The study is based on the review of the literature where main attention is paid to negative impacts of technostress on the academic performance and psychological well-being of students as well as gender-related stressors and the relationship between problematic internet use and these outcomes.

Methods: The current literature was therefore reviewed and integrated from different sources and presented in a competitive manner. Other works involved gender–specific stressors among information technology students that were conducted by Mazo (2015), the role of problematic use of the internet on technostress done by Abdullah et al., (2023) the impact of social media usage, fear of missing out, and generalized smartphone addiction by Kirschner and Karpinski (2022) & Bakioğlu et al. (2022) works. Also, a cross-sectional study was carried out on the university students of the Bachelor of Nursing using the standardized self-administered questionnaire developed based on the technology abuse scale, perceived stress scale, health-promoting lifestyle profile-II, and student version of the toxic triad.

Results: This is to mean that, psychological bullying through use of technology results in high stress levels and in this way, impacts on learning achievement, psychological health, and sleep among students. This study finds that both genders have different stressors which emphasizes that problematic internet use or technostress reduces psychological well-being whereby social use of media and FoMO increase smartphone addiction.

Conclusion: As such, it comprehensively shows the impact of technology used negatively on students’ stress and their well-being. Thus, providing how technostress and its effects on academic achievement and psychological health may be ameliorated needs for intervention strategies to prevent further increase in technology’s negative effects on the health and efficiency of students.