Compulsive Use of Smartphone and Technostress: a Study among Indian Students
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The advancement of ICTs in recent decades has provided an easy and rapid access to information, improved communications, performance gains, and productivity gains. But, this advancement comes with a “bad effect” known as Technostress. Technostress has increased in frequency by the compulsive use of ICT. Now a day’s, Smartphone has became a primary device to access ICT among students. This study has investigated the impact of Smartphone on Technostress among post graduate students. This study has been achieved with an online/ offline survey of 310 students of mixed demographics. The findings show that there are moderate correlation between the compulsive use of Smartphone and Technostress. This indicates that further research is needed in this area to probe the established relation further.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015