Techno-stressors and employees' work-life balance in the digital era
Start Date
21-2-2025 10:05 AM
End Date
21-2-2025 10:35 AM
Description
The implementation of information and communication technology for work has brought lots of benefits to humankind, such as higher productivity and efficiency employees. Nevertheless, employees are experiencing more threats (also known as techno-stress) from rapid technology advancement in the workplace, due to their inadaptability to such changes. Techno-stressor is becoming a major stressor for employees in the current workplace. While lots of research show that techno-stressors negatively Impact employees' work attitudes and performance, little is known about the effects of techno-stressors on employees' work-life interaction. I will present the findings of our studies about the relationships between techno-stressors and employees' work-life balance, and the boundary condition and underlying mechanism. The results showed that: 1) techno-stressors were negatively related to employees' work-life balance; 2) job self-efficacy moderated the negative relationship such that job self-efficacy could buffer the negative effect of techno-stressors on work-life balance: 3) emotional exhaustion mediated the moderating effect of job self-efficacy such that the buffering effect of job self-efficacy worker through lowering employees' emotional exhaustion. Moreover, we also found that techno-stressors make employees experience high level of workplace objectification, and digital mindset could buffer the negative impacts of techno-stressors on employees experienced objectification in the workplace. The studies enriches the techno-stress literature by extending techno-stressors' effects on individuals' work-life interaction, provides practical implications for both employees and employers to effectively cope with techno-stressors.
Keywords
Techno-stress, work-life balance, job self-efficacy, digital mindset, workplace objectification
Speaker
Prof LU Changqin
Research Professor, School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
Dr. Chang-qin Lu is a research professor with tenure, department head of Department of Managerial and Social Psychology in School of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Peking University. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the Institute of Psychology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. He was a visiting scholar at Department of Psychology, University of South Florida during 2007-2008. His research focuses broadly on work stress, career management, and leadership, with interests in job insecurity, technostress, self-efficacy, spillover and crossover effects of work-family conflict/balance, and issues in cross-cultural/national stress research. His work has been published in Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Acta Psychological Sinica and others. Dr. Lu serve as the associate editor of Applied Psychology: An International Review (2020-) and editorial board members for International Journal of Stress Management, Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, Journal Managerial Psychology and other esteemed journals. Moreover, he act as Deputy director, Working Committee on Employee Psychological Strengths Promotion of the Chinese Psychological Society (2022-), Board members of Managerial Psychology Association of Chinese Psychological Society (2016-), Managerial Psychology Association of Chinese Social Psychological Society (2022-), and Career Development and Management Association, China Association of Labor Economics (2015-).
Co-author(s)
Zhongda WU
Document Type
Keynote speech
Recommended Citation
Lu, C. (2025, February 21). Techno-stressors and employees' work-life balance in the digital era. Keynote speech presented at the International Conference and Workshop on Health and Well-being in the Digital Era. Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Techno-stressors and employees' work-life balance in the digital era
The implementation of information and communication technology for work has brought lots of benefits to humankind, such as higher productivity and efficiency employees. Nevertheless, employees are experiencing more threats (also known as techno-stress) from rapid technology advancement in the workplace, due to their inadaptability to such changes. Techno-stressor is becoming a major stressor for employees in the current workplace. While lots of research show that techno-stressors negatively Impact employees' work attitudes and performance, little is known about the effects of techno-stressors on employees' work-life interaction. I will present the findings of our studies about the relationships between techno-stressors and employees' work-life balance, and the boundary condition and underlying mechanism. The results showed that: 1) techno-stressors were negatively related to employees' work-life balance; 2) job self-efficacy moderated the negative relationship such that job self-efficacy could buffer the negative effect of techno-stressors on work-life balance: 3) emotional exhaustion mediated the moderating effect of job self-efficacy such that the buffering effect of job self-efficacy worker through lowering employees' emotional exhaustion. Moreover, we also found that techno-stressors make employees experience high level of workplace objectification, and digital mindset could buffer the negative impacts of techno-stressors on employees experienced objectification in the workplace. The studies enriches the techno-stress literature by extending techno-stressors' effects on individuals' work-life interaction, provides practical implications for both employees and employers to effectively cope with techno-stressors.
Keywords
Techno-stress, work-life balance, job self-efficacy, digital mindset, workplace objectification