technostress

Definitions

Stress caused by an inability to cope with modern technology.

informal, uncountable

Equivalents

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