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Stress 2.0: Social Media Overload Among Swiss Teenagers [PDF]

, 2014
Technostress and information overload are serious challenges of the information age. An alarming number of people exhibit dangerously intensive media consumption, while Internet and mobile phone addictions are a widespread phenomenon. At the same time, new media overexposure among young people is understudied, even more so when social network sites are
Lutz, Christoph, Ranzini, Giulia, Meckel, Miriam   +2 more
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The impact of information overload on the information avoidance of medical staff: The moderating and mediating roles of job performance and time pressure

Computers in Human Behavior Reports
This study aims to explore whether social media information overload affects medical staff's information avoidance behavior and the extent to which time pressure mediates and job performance moderates this relationship.
Chun Xia, Jia Xu, Jiaxing Cheng, Yongmei Hou   +3 more
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Perceived Information Overload and Unverified Information Sharing on WeChat Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model of Anxiety and Perceived Herd

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Individuals’ unverified information sharing on social media, namely, sharing information without verification, is a major cause of the widespread misinformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Qing Huang, Sihan Lei, Binbin Ni, Binbin Ni   +3 more
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The bright side of social media information overload for anti-COVID-19 behaviors: a stimulus-organism-response framework

Frontiers in Public Health
Social media has an important impact on social management by communicating information that influences individual behavior; however, too much social media information can cause user information overload.
Shang Meng, Lingling Zhong, Junwei Cao
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Scrolling away from the news: how news overload drives avoidance and curation in the UAE

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The huge increase in news content in the fast-changing world of social media has resulted in the phenomenon of news overload. This is reflected in individual behaviours such as news curation or avoidance, which have become a significant issue in both ...
Amr Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelhamid, Mahmoud Sayed Mohamed Ali   +1 more
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Too much social media to sleep: the chained mediation effect of information strain and depressive symptoms on the relationship between social media overload and insomnia

BMC Public Health
Background Although the relationship between social media use and insomnia has been confirmed, few studies have explored the association between social media overload and insomnia, and the underlying mechanism is still unclear.
Tian Xie, Yangyang Wang
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Role overload, pain and physical dysfunction in early rheumatoid or undifferentiated inflammatory arthritis in Canada

BioPsychoSocial Medicine, 2012
Background Inflammatory arthritis impairs participation in societal roles. Role overload arises when the demands by a given role set exceed the resources; time and energy, to carry out the required tasks.
Mustafa Sally, Looper Karl, Zelkowitz Phyllis, Purden Margaret, Baron Murray   +4 more
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Competing for Attention in Social Media under Information Overload Conditions

PLOS ONE, 2015
Aunque las muchas formas de redes sociales modernas se han convertido en los principales canales para la difusión de información, se están sobrecargando debido a la rápida expansión del número de fuentes de información. Analizamos la expansión del contenido generado por los usuarios en Sina Weibo, el sitio de microblogs más grande de China, y ...
Ling Feng, Yanqing Hu, Baowen Li, H. Eugene Stanley, Shlomo Havlin, Lidia A. Braunstein   +5 more
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Examining the Impact of Social Media Overload on the Academic Performance of Public Medical College Students of Lahore

Life and Science
Objective: This study's objectives were two-fold. First, it examined the direct relationship between social media overload and academic performance.
Muhammad Ali Ather, Rehma Shanze Alam, Sumaira Qambar Bokhari, Aysha Butt   +3 more
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Deciphering the underlying repercussions of cognitive overload on university students' fatigue, frustration and academic productivity: Implementation of stimulus–organism–response model

Acta Psychologica
Extant studies suggest that cognitive overload, as a nascent phenomenon, has become increasingly pervasive among university students, precipitating a multitude of detrimental consequences.
Hua Pang, Xiaoyi Jin, Wanting Zhang
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