"Nomophobia and FOMO Syndrome: Are they 21st Century Occupational Diseases?"

Abstract

Technostress is a negative psychological state of the worker. Its appearance is related to the use of information and communication technologies, or the threat of using these technologies in the future. Technostress appears due to the worker's inability to manage new information and communication technologies healthily. Thus, the worker may perceive a mismatch between the need to use new technologies in his job and the resources, skills, or time available to him to satisfy that demand. This can end in a negative psychological state and subsequent illness. However, the current context forces the worker to learn to deal with new technologies that are also always being renewed. So much so, that we can find the opposite phenomenon to the lack of adaptation: addiction to these new technologies. This techno-addiction can manifest itself in two recent illnesses discussed in this article: nomophobia and FOMO syndrome.