On the associations between videoconference fatigue, burnout and depression including personality associations

Christian Montag; Dmitri Rozgonjuk; René Riedl; Cornelia Sindermann

doi:10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100409

On the associations between videoconference fatigue, burnout and depression including personality associations

Christian Montag, Dmitri Rozgonjuk, René Riedl, Cornelia Sindermann

Institute of Business Informatics - Information Engineering

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Abstract

Videoconference fatigue (hereafter VC fatigue) presents a new psychological construct, which gained momentum in course of the COVID-19 pandemic with the rise of videoconferences taking place in everyday (work-)life. In order to better characterize VC fatigue, it is of importance not only to investigate associations with age, gender and personality (as has been done earlier and will be revisited). Besides, it is crucial to shed light on relevant psychopathological constructs co-occurring with VC fatigue. In the present survey study, based on data from N = 311 participants recruited via the Internet we investigated the associations between VC fatigue, burnout and depression, and we specifically took the personality trait neuroticism as potential predisposing variable into account. These four constructs were robustly positively associated with each other. Moreover, mediation analyses revealed that the positive associations between neuroticism and burnout/depression might in parts be mediated by VC fatigue. However, future studies are needed to disentangle cause and effect between the aforementioned variables. The present study, to our knowledge, is among the first to reveal associations between VC fatigue and psychopathologies. Moreover, in this paper we present a German version of the Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue scale (ZEF) by Fauville and colleagues.

Original language	English
Article number	100409
Pages (from-to)	100409
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100409
Publication status	Published - 2022

Fields of science

303026 Public health
305909 Stress research
102 Computer Sciences
102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
102015 Information systems
102016 IT security
502007 E-commerce
502014 Innovation research
502030 Project management
509026 Digitalisation research
501016 Educational psychology
602036 Neurolinguistics
501030 Cognitive science
502032 Quality management
502043 Business consultancy
502044 Business management
502050 Business informatics
502058 Digital transformation
503008 E-learning
509004 Evaluation research
301407 Neurophysiology
301401 Brain research

JKU Focus areas

Digital Transformation

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