Meaning of technostress | Babel Free

Definitions

Stress caused by an inability to cope with modern technology.

informal, uncountable

Examples

“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;[…]”

“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).”

CEFR level