TY - GEN
T1 - Explaining Inconsistent Research Findings on the Relationship Between Age and Technostress Perceptions
T2 - Virtual conference NeuroIS Retreat, 2020
AU - Riedl, René
AU - VanMeter, Karin
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement. This research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) as part of the project “Technostress in organizations” (project number: P 30865) at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Technostress (TS) research has been conducted since the early 1980s. With regard to the relationship between user age and TS perceptions, research findings are inconsistent. While some scholars argued, and empirically showed, that older users are more prone to experience TS, other studies report opposite results. In this paper, we briefly review the literature and summarize major empirical findings on the relationship between age and TS, thereby documenting the inconsistency of results. Based on this review, we outline neurophysiological insights which might serve as an explanation for the mixed evidence. Specifically, we outline insights from physiology and brain research which describes neurobiological changes in normal aging (i.e., changes that are unrelated to pathologies). We focus on age-related changes related to the human stress system as we expected that these alterations might predominantly contribute to a better understanding of age-related differences in TS perceptions. We close this paper with a concluding comment.
AB - Technostress (TS) research has been conducted since the early 1980s. With regard to the relationship between user age and TS perceptions, research findings are inconsistent. While some scholars argued, and empirically showed, that older users are more prone to experience TS, other studies report opposite results. In this paper, we briefly review the literature and summarize major empirical findings on the relationship between age and TS, thereby documenting the inconsistency of results. Based on this review, we outline neurophysiological insights which might serve as an explanation for the mixed evidence. Specifically, we outline insights from physiology and brain research which describes neurobiological changes in normal aging (i.e., changes that are unrelated to pathologies). We focus on age-related changes related to the human stress system as we expected that these alterations might predominantly contribute to a better understanding of age-related differences in TS perceptions. We close this paper with a concluding comment.
KW - Age
KW - Aging
KW - Autonomic nervous system
KW - Brain
KW - Digital stress
KW - Stress
KW - Technostress
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096559820&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-60073-0_36
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-60073-0_36
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85096559820
SN - 9783030600723
T3 - Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation
SP - 307
EP - 320
BT - Information Systems and Neuroscience - NeuroIS Retreat 2020
A2 - Davis, Fred D.
A2 - Riedl, René
A2 - vom Brocke, Jan
A2 - Léger, Pierre-Majorique
A2 - Randolph, Adriane B.
A2 - Fischer, Thomas
PB - Springer
Y2 - 2 June 2020 through 4 June 2020
ER -