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Can welfare states buffer technostress? Income and technostress in the context of various OECD countries

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  • Ann S Lauterbach
  • Tobias Tober
  • Florian Kunze
  • Marius R Busemeyer

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Many workers are experiencing the downsides of being exposed to an overload of information and communication technology (ICT), highlighting the need for resources to cope with the resulting technostress. This article offers a novel cross-level perspective on technostress by examining how the context of the welfare state influences the relationship between income and technostress. Showing that individuals with higher income experience less technostress, this study argues that the welfare state represents an additional coping resource, in particular in the form of unemployment benefits. Since unemployment benefits insure income earners in the case of job loss, the negative effect of income on technostress should increase with higher levels of unemployment generosity. In line with these expectations, empirical results based on original survey data collected in collaboration with the OECD show that the impact of income on technostress varies across welfare state contexts. Implications for public health and policymakers are being discussed.

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  • Ann S Lauterbach & Tobias Tober & Florian Kunze & Marius R Busemeyer, 2023. "Can welfare states buffer technostress? Income and technostress in the context of various OECD countries," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(12), pages 1-19, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0295229
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295229
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