Meanings
- informaluncountableStress caused by an inability to cope with modern technology.
The use of social media platforms has been found to produce symptoms suggestive of technostress (Salo et al. 2019), while their direct exploitation and experience of technostress in working life have increased (Brooks et al. 2017).
2022, Vesa Salminen, Human Factors, Business Management and Society, AHFE International, →ISBN, page 1851 more example
Technostress can affect anyone living in the twentieth century: men and women, young and old, workers, lovers, and students. Our fascination with the rational and calculated world of computer-generated interactions may be forcing us to adapt in ways detrimental to our health and personalities: eye strain and headaches from working too many hours in front of a VDT terminal;[…]
1984, Craig Brod, Technostress: the human cost of the computer revolution, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 1
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From techno- + stress, coined by Craig Brod in 1984, see quotations.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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