Impact of Mindfulness on Technostress

Abstract

With the emergence of the pandemic period, technology played a crucial role in facilitating distant work settings where the significant benefits were given to both individuals and organizations. However, with the time by the excessive use of technology by the individuals the concept of "technostress" was emerged. With the growing popularity the scholars attempted to introduce the mechanisms for reducing this phenomenon. In identifying these the factors of reducing the technostress, mindfulness is a factor which has gained limited attention in previous literature. Thus, drawing on the transaction-based approach, the current study attempts to examine the impact of mindfulness on technostress. The techno overload, techno invasion, techno complexity, techno insecurity and techno uncertainty were used as dimensions of technostress in the current study. The current study is quantitative and cross sectional. 201 employed individuals were drawn conveniently among the IT professionals. Data were collected using a self-administered pretested questionnaire. The data was analyzed using SPSS 25. The empirical data revealed there is a significant impact of mindfulness on techno overload, techno complexity, techno uncertainty whereas there is no impact of mindfulness on techno invasion and techno insecurity.