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ERIC Number: EJ1439761
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Aug
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1360-2357
EISSN: EISSN-1573-7608
ICT as a Weight Tilting the Scales toward "Nomadic Employees": Implications for Work-School Interface Experiences of Working Students
Zhipeng Zhou; Ziyao Zhang; Ying Lu; Zilong Wang; Jianqiang Cui; Guodong Ni
Education and Information Technologies, v29 n12 p14663-14685 2024
For working students, reconciling work and school lives is a major challenge. Emerging ubiquitous information and communication technologies (ICTs) further exacerbate this challenge, as a constant connection to work via ICTs blurring the boundaries between work and school domains. While the influence of ICTs on users' work and personal lives has received considerable research attention, the lens has not focused on how ICTs usage affect working students. In this study, we theorized the process by which working students' ICTs usage during school time affects their work-school interface experiences. We conducted a time-lagged design with two-phase data collection, and a sample consisted of 266 working students was used to test the proposed hypotheses and theoretical model. The results suggest that as the frequency of work-related ICTs usage during school time increases, working students will experience more work-school conflict; the elevated experience of work-school conflict in turn negatively affects working students' work-school balance satisfaction. Furthermore, our results indicate that the negative effects of ICTs usage presented in this study are stronger (weaker) for those with high segmentation (integration) preference. These findings add to our understanding of the consequences of ICTs usage regarding working students' work-school interface. We provide some recommendations on how to minimize work-school conflict caused by ICTs usage and enhance balance satisfaction, and provide directions for future research in this topic.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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