Blackberry Addiction: Symptoms and Outcomes

Pervasive information technologies, such as Blackberries, enable organizational users to interact with their working environments anytime and from anywhere. While such technologies can contribute to increased productivity, they can also drive addictive behaviors and negative consequences. An empirical study of 241 mobile email users revealed that their levels of addiction to mobile email increase their perceived work overload and technology-family conflict, work overload reduces their organizational commitment, and technology-family conflict diminishes the perceived usefulness of mobile email. Work overload together with technology-family conflict foster work-family conflict. Overall, this study distinguishes between technology-related and work-related conflict with one’s family, and validates several negative consequences of technology addiction. Implications for research and practice are offered

Understanding the relationship between smartphone addiction and well-being: the mediation of mindfulness and moderation of hedonic Apps

The advent of handheld devices such as smartphones has changed the way we connect, navigate, and entertain and has been recognized as a revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT). Despite the plethora of benefits of this new technology, concerns have been raised about the unintended adverse consequences to well-being in the form of addictive use. Past research has linked smartphone addiction to negative consequences, but it remains unclear how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) smartphone addiction, in turn, is related to well-being. This study attempts to fill this void by addressing these questions through the lens of the stimulus-organism-response framework. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed

Smartphone Addictions: A Review of Themes, Theories and Future Research Directions

This research work presents a literature review on Smartphone Addiction (SA). The papers used for this review were retrieved from AIS (All Repositories), Elsevier, Wiley Online, Tailor and Francis and JSTOR databases using the phrase Smartphone Addiction . In all, 13 AIS top conferences and 31 peer-reviewed journals searched from 2007 to July 2018 returned 1572 papers. This paper details the findings based on the literature assessment of 128 publications. In terms of context and geographical gaps, Asia leads the chart with 39 articles representing 30.5percent and Africa recorded only 1 paper used for this work. Online data collection with global focus had 37 articles representing 28.9percent and quantitative methodology was adopted by 91 articles representing 71.1percent. SA research was more at the micro and meso levels. This review has demonstrated that literature offers several perspectives on SA but failed to establish a causal theory or a model that fully accounted for urge and craving phenomena from an IS design principle perspective to mitigate SA. Also, smartphones are devices (artifacts) that enable users to access and become addicted to applications such as video games, SNSs, emails, etc. Future research should, therefore, focus more on addictive activities and applications on these devices

Can IT Hurt Productivity? An Investigation of IT Addiction

While IT is generally found to augment productivity, recent evidence indicates that excessive and compulsive usage of IT is likely to have some adverse consequences. Given the prevalence of IT addiction, it becomes increasingly important to study this phenomenon. We seek to investigate the adverse effects of IT addiction, especially on productivity, in work settings. We propose a model showing that two types of factors (related to individual differences and technology features) could have an impact on addictive IT use, which in turn will affect work productivity. A quantitative cross-sectional design will be used to test the model; as needed, survey instruments will be developed and/or validated. Our study will contribute to the IS discipline by proposing a model of IT addiction to identify and explain its significant antecedents and impacts. For managers, the findings will help understanding the formation of addictive IT behaviors and their effects

Organizational innovativeness and addiction: moderator mediation effect through perceived usefulness on technostress

The goal of thisstudy isto explorethe effects of innovative organizations on employee’stechnostress and howaddiction to mobile Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)mediates the relationship. We also includedthe moderator perceived usefulness of mobile ICTsto the model. By applying a survey in three differentmomentsto a final sample of 157 employees, we analyzedwhether addiction mediated the relationship between organizational innovativeness and two technostressors: techno overload and techno invasion. Additionally, we examineif individuals’perceived usefulness moderates the relationship between organizational innovativeness and addiction. Finally, we aimed to analyze whether the indirect effects of organizational innovativeness on techno overload and techno invasion, through addiction, are dependent on the level of perceived usefulness of mobile ICTs. Results haves hown a significant indirect effect between organizational innovativeness and both techno overload and techno invasion, through addiction, when perceived usefulness is high

Connectivity as a Two-Edged Sword: Mirroring the Multifaceted Field of Constant Connectivity

Constant connectivity is a phenomenon brought about by our interconnected world. However, it is not just a multidisciplinary field investigated by researchers from the IS field, organization studies, management studies and psy-chology, but also an actual challenge which knowledge workers face every day. This literature review provides a thematic but also methodological overview of this still young research field on three levels: (1) the paradigm funnel, (2) units of analysis (individual, organizational, societal) and (3) four different thematic streams in the literature. On the basis of the lacks discovered in the paradigm funnel, omitting society as unit of analysis, and thematic gaps in the existing literature, an avenue for future research is developed. Furthermore, as constant connectivity and, virtual communication, respectively became a success factor for companies, I reveal important managerial implications for practitioners derived from my thematic analysis

Technostress: A Concept Analysis

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become an integral part of modern society, transforming the way people work, communicate, and live. However, the pervasive use of technology has also given rise to a new phenomenon known as "technostress", which refers to the negative effects and stressors that arise from the use of technology in various domains of life, including the workplace. Despite the growing recognition of technostress as a significant issue, the literature on this topic remains fragmented and lacks comprehensive evaluations. Therefore, this article aims to provide a thorough and comprehensive literature review of technostress in the workplace. Using keywords such as "techno-stress", "technostress", and "Technology Related Stress", we conducted a systematic review of four major electronic databases, including Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), and Cairn. The review revealed that technostress is a multidimensional construct that encompasses various cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physiological responses to technology use in the workplace. The review also discuss theoretical models of technostress, and highlighted the physiological side of technostress, including its impact on physical health.  In addition to the negative effects, the review also discussed inhibitors or coping mechanisms that individuals and organizations may employ to mitigate technostress. The findings of this literature review provide insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to further investigate and address the challenges posed by technostress in the workplace.   Keywords: technostress definition, technostress theoretical models, physiological face of technostress, technostress assessment, technostress inhibitors. JEL Classification: I1 Paper type: Theoretical Research Information and communication technology (ICT) has become an integral part of modern society, transforming the way people work, communicate, and live. However, the pervasive use of technology has also given rise to a new phenomenon known as "technostress", which refers to the negative effects and stressors that arise from the use of technology in various domains of life, including the workplace. Despite the growing recognition of technostress as a significant issue, the literature on this topic remains fragmented and lacks comprehensive evaluations. Therefore, this article aims to provide a thorough and comprehensive literature review of technostress in the workplace. Using keywords such as "techno-stress", "technostress", and "Technology Related Stress", we conducted a systematic review of four major electronic databases, including Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), and Cairn. The review revealed that technostress is a multidimensional construct that encompasses various cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physiological responses to technology use in the workplace. The review also discuss theoretical models of technostress, and highlighted the physiological side of technostress, including its impact on physical health.  In addition to the negative effects, the review also discussed inhibitors or coping mechanisms that individuals and organizations may employ to mitigate technostress. The findings of this literature review provide insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to further investigate and address the challenges posed by technostress in the workplace.   Keywords: technostress definition, technostress theoretical models, physiological face of technostress, technostress assessment, technostress inhibitors. JEL Classification: I1 Paper type: Theoretical Research&nbsp

Understanding Problematic Smartphone Use and Its Characteristics: A Perspective on Behavioral Addiction

The problematic use of smartphones has extensively drawn social attention because of the harmful and disturbing outcomes. However, there has been little comprehensive research concerning the mechanism of problematic behavior in the use of smartphone, particularly for behavioral addiction. Given the specific characteristics of smartphones (e.g., high mobility, instant connection, and ubiquitous access), it is highlighted that smartphone addiction is a behavior that differentiates from traditional addiction behavior. However, in the previous research, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding of the characteristics and the underlying mechanism of smartphone addiction. Motivated to systematically theorize this issue, we primarily define addiction in the smartphone context and comprehend the characteristics of smartphone addiction, followed by developing the measures for smartphone addiction. On this conceptual foundation, future empirical research should be able to explain, predict, and test addiction behavior in the use of smartphone

Factors Implicated in Smartphone Usage Distressing Individual

In today’s era usage of communication technology is increasing day by day whether it may be in the field of education or any other field. The dependency on these technological devices has been increased; it may be fruitful on one hand and problematic from some aspects on other side. People are not realizing the negative aspects of the usage but when they were asked they seemed to neglect the negative aspects as they are not concerned but some other day it will certainly affect them. The present study was done to identify the communication technology induced stressor, exploratory factor analysis has been done on the data collected  from 427 respondent and nine factor  are extracted containing variables which simply explains the smartphone uses stressor that  and those factors may be used for further analysis in  various studies related to smartphone usage