Doomscrolling as Cyberloafing in the Workplace: A Systematic Literature Review
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Vecco Suryahadi Saputro(1*)
Padjadjaran University
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Larasati Puspa Martani Sugianto(2)
Padjadjaran University
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6319-9073
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Saskia Salmana Dahyar(3)
Padjadjaran University
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9972-8459
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Adisti Gilang Cempaka(4)
Padjadjaran University
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4004-7443
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Said Aryonindito(5)
Padjadjaran University
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6319-9073
(*) Corresponding Author
Keywords:
Cyberloafing, Doomscrolling, Deviant behavior, Mental health, Workplace
Abstract
Introduction Doomscrolling represents a harmful form of digital behavior that must be identified and mitigated.
However, the literature on doomscrolling remains fragmented across multiple disciplines.
Aim Exploration of the primary determinant factors of doomscrolling behaviors, their impact on employees, and
suggested internal controls to mitigate the behavior, through Systematic literature reviews using PRISMA Guidelines.
Result The findings reveal that coping mechanisms and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) are the most significant factors of cyberloafing and doomscrolling behavior. The findings demonstrate that while doomscrolling leads to detrimental outcomes such as task avoidance and deprioritization of responsibilities, they concurrently serve as a coping mechanism. Employees frequently resort to digital escapism, such as browsing e-commerce platforms or consuming humorous content, to release stress.
Conclusion Ineffective procedures and a lack of workload fairness may cause employees to engage in mischief behavior. For organizations, it is important to implement control mechanisms to reduce deviant behavior.
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Tandon, A., Dhir, A., Islam, N., Talwar, S., & Mäntymäki, M. (2021). Psychological and behavioral outcomes of social media-induced fear of missing out at the workplace. Journal of Business Research, 136, 186–197. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.07.036
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Akbulut, Y., Dönmez, O., & Dursun, Ö. Ö. (2017). Cyberloafing and social desirability bias among students and employees. Computers in Human Behavior, 72, 87–95. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.043
Al-Saggaf, Y., & O’Donnell, S. B. (2019). Phubbing: Perceptions, reasons behind, predictors, and impacts. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 1(2), 132–140. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.137
American Psychological Association, A. (2020). Stress In America. The Journal of American History, 88(2), 617.
Ang, C. (2025). Doomscrolling and Secondary Traumatic Stress: Psychological Distress a nd Just World Belief as Potential Mediating Pathways. Psychiatric Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-025-10236-5
Batabyal, S. K., & Bhal, K. T. (2022). Push-pull factors and means-end chain framework of cyberloafing: a soft laddering study using LadderUX. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 21(1), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-05-2022-0046
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Biggs, A. (2024). Coping with stress. Elgar Encyclopedia of Occupational Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035313389.ch10
Brown, D. J., Scott, R., Ireland, R., Harness, J., Phipps, D. J., & Keech, J. J. (2026). Rethinking social media and mental health: The role of emotion regulation difficulties. Computers in Human Behavior, 174, 108825. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108825
Chiu, C., Tan, C. M., Hsu, J. S. C., & Cheng, H. (2023). Employee deviance: the impacts of techno-insecurity and moral disengagement. Information Technology and People. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-03-2021-0198
Dmour, M. M., Bakar, H. S., & Hamzah, M. R. (2020). Antecedent, Consequences, and Policies View of Cyberloafing among the Employees. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1529(2), 22016. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1529/2/022016
Dönmez, O., & Akbulut, Y. (2019). Modelling teachers’ acceptance of children’s internet use: A risk-focused inquiry. The Social Science Journal, 56(4), 518–529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2018.08.014
Eberlin, R., & Tatum, B. (2008). Making just decisions: Organizational justice, decision making, and leadership. Management Decision, 46, 310–329. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251740810854177
Frampton, J. R., & Fox, J. (2021). Monitoring, Creeping, or Surveillance? A Synthesis of Online Social Information Seeking Concepts. Review of Communication Research, 9, 1–42. https://doi.org/10.12840/ISSN.2255-4165.025
Gao, S., & Zhao, X. (2024). Social media overload and proactive–reactive innovation behavior: A TTSC framework perspective. International Journal of Information Management, 75, 102735. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102735
Güner, T. A. (2026). Substance use among refugee adolescents : A systematic review from a public health perspective. 13, 32–39.
He, B., Tan, Z., Lai, K., Qiu, B., & Wang, S. (2024). The effect of event impact on fear of missing out: the chain mediation effect of coping styles and anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1382440
Henle, C. A., & Kedharnath, U. (2012). Cyberloafing in the workplace. Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch048
Hobfoll, S., Halbesleben, J., Neveu, J.-P., & Westman, M. (2018). Conservation of Resources in the Organizational Context: The Reality of Resources and Their Consequences. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 5. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032117-104640
Hughes, I. M., Keith, M. G., Lee, J., & Gray, C. E. (2024). Working, scrolling, and worrying: Doomscrolling at work and its implications for work engagement. Computers in Human Behavior, 153, 108130. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108130
Hung, T.-K., Lee, S.-L., Liou, S.-H., & Lin, J.-L. (2025). The Relationship Between Negative Leadership Behaviors and Workplace D eviant Behaviors: Moderated Mediation Examination of Loyalty to Superv isors. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440251375524
Islam, A. K. M. N., Mäntymäki, M., & Benbasat, I. (2018). Duality of self-promotion on social networking sites. Information Technology & People, 32(2), 269–296. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-07-2017-0213
JBI. (2017). Checklist for Qualitative Research. The Joanna Briggs Institute, 6. http://joannabriggs.org/research/critical-appraisal-tools.htmlwww.joannabriggs.org%0Ahttp://www.joannabriggs.org/assets/docs/critical-appraisal-tools/JBI_Critical_Appraisal-Checklist_for_Qualitative_Research.pdf
Karmakar, I. (2020). A review of IT addiction in IS research. 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2020.
Kaya, B., & Griffiths, M. D. (2025). Intolerance of uncertainty and mental wellbeing: the mediating and mod erating role of doomscrolling. Behavior and Information Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2024.2314747
Kitchenham, B., & Charters, S. (2007). Guidelines for performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering. 2.
Koay, K. Y., Soh, P. C.-H., & Chew, K. W. (2017). Do employees’ private demands lead to cyberloafing? The mediating role of job stress. Management Research Review, 40(9), 1025–1038. https://doi.org/10.1108/MRR-11-2016-0252
Kumar, S., Akhouri, A., Yadav, R., & Chauhan, V. (2025). A comprehensive bibliometric study of cyberloafing: trends, patterns and future directions. International Journal of Organizational Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-10-2024-4899
Mongeon, P., & Paul-Hus, A. (2016). The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis. Scientometrics, 106(1), 213–228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1765-5
Moola, S., Munn, Z., Tufanaru, C., Aromataris, E., Sears, K., Sfetcu, R Currie M, Qureshi R, Mattis P, Lisy K, M. P.-F., Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), Moola, S., Munn, Z., Tufanaru, C., Aromataris, E., Sears, K., Sfetcu, R., Currie, M., Qureshi, R., Mattis, P., Lisy, K., & Mu, P.-F. (2017). Checklist for Systematic Reviews and Research Syntheses. Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tools, 1–4. https://joannabriggs.org/ebp/critical_appraisal_tools%0Ahttps://jbi.global/critical-appraisal-tools%0Ahttp://joannabriggs.org/assets/docs/critical-appraisal-tools/JBI_Critical_Appraisal-Checklist_for_Case_Reports2017.pdf
Neijzen, M. (2024). The epistemic value of doombehavior: beyond the prudential consequenc es of doomscrolling, doomchecking, and doomsurfing. Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04602-2
Pirkkalainen, H., Tarafdar, M., Salo, M., & Makkonen, M. (2021). Proximal and distal antecedents of problematic information technology use in organizations. Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-02-2021-0083
Rahaei, A., & Salehzadeh, R. (2020). Evaluating the impact of psychological entitlement on cyberloafing: the mediating role of perceived organizational justice. VILAKSHAN - XIMB Journal of Management, 17(1–2), 137–152. https://doi.org/10.1108/XJM-06-2020-0003
Reizer, A., Galperin, B. L., Chavan, M., Behl, A., & Pereira, V. (2022). Examining the relationship between fear of COVID-19, intolerance for uncertainty, and cyberloafing: A mediational model. Journal of Business Research, 145(March), 660–670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.03.037
Rieu, A., Loibl, K., & Leuders, T. (2024). How context influences the processing of relevant information and judgment accuracy—the role of information restriction in judgment processes in diagnosing misconceptions. Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 15. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1405756
Salehzadeh, A., Calitz, A. P., & Greyling, J. (2020). Human activity recognition using deep electroencephalography learning. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 62, 102094. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2020.102094
Shabahang, R., Kim, S., Hosseinkhanzadeh, A. A., Aruguete, M. S., & Kakabraee, K. (2023). “Give Your Thumb a Break” from Surfing Tragic Posts: Potential Corrosi ve Consequences of Social Media Users’ Doomscrolling. Media Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2157287
Shahrzadi, L., Mansouri, A., Alavi, M., & Shabani, A. (2024). Causes, consequences, and strategies to deal with information overload: A scoping review. International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 4(2), 100261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjimei.2024.100261
Sharma, B., Lee, S. S., & Johnson, B. K. (2022). SPECIAL COLLECTION: TECHNOLOGY IN A TIME OF SOCIAL DISTANCING The Dark at the End of the Tunnel: Doomscrolling on Social Media Newsfeeds. Technology, Mind, and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000059
Takács, J., & Seregély, B. (2025). Parallel mediation of FoMO and self-control on the relationship between problematic smartphone use and neuroticism, at-risk group’s characteristics among young adults. Acta Psychologica, 260, 105608. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105608
Tandon, A., Dhir, A., Islam, N., Talwar, S., & Mäntymäki, M. (2021). Psychological and behavioral outcomes of social media-induced fear of missing out at the workplace. Journal of Business Research, 136, 186–197. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.07.036
Tandon, A., Dhir, A., Talwar, S., Kaur, P., & Mäntymäki, M. (2022). Social media induced fear of missing out (FoMO) and phubbing: Behavioral, relational and psychological outcomes. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 174, 121149. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121149
Taskin, S., Yıldırım-Kurtuluş, H., Satici, S. A., & Deniz, M. E. (2024). Doomscrolling and mental well-being in social media users: A serial me diation through mindfulness and secondary traumatic stress. Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.23111
Tsai, H.-Y. (2023). Do you feel like being proactive day? How Daily Cyberloafing Influences Creativity and Proactive Behavior: The Moderating Roles of Work Environment. Computers in Human Behavior, 138, 107470. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107470
Wang, M., Liu, Y., & Lang, Y. (2024). Does perceived overqualification lead to cyberloafing? A moderated-mediation model based on social cognitive theory. Chinese Management Studies, 19(2), 549–566. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-12-2023-0690
Xu, F., Luo, X. (Robert), & Hsu, C. W. (2020). Anger or fear? Effects of discrete emotions on employee’s computer-rel ated deviant behavior. Information and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2019.103180
Yu, L., Chen, Y., Zhang, S., Dai, B., & Liao, S. (2022). Excessive use of personal social media at work: antecedents and outcomes from dual-system and person-environment fit perspectives. Internet Research, 33(3), 1202–1227. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-05-2021-0287
Zhang, L., Yang, J., Zhang, Y., & Xu, G. (2023). Gig worker’s perceived algorithmic management, stress appraisal, and d estructive deviant behavior. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294074
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Saputro, V., Sugianto, L., Dahyar, S., Cempaka, A., & Aryonindito, S. (2026). Doomscrolling as Cyberloafing in the Workplace: A Systematic Literature Review. Journal of Health and Behavioral Science, 8(2), 154-182. https://doi.org/10.35508/jhbs.v8i2.28880
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