Sleep and workload mediate the relationship between digital engagement and burnout: a national cross-sectional study of university faculty in India
Mohammad Sidiq, Balamurugan Janakiraman, Faizan Kashoo, Jaya Shanker Tedla, Veeragoudhaman TS, Aksh Chahal, Bartosz Maciej Wojcik, Akriti Pandey, Rajkumar Krishnan Vasanthi, Jyoti Sharma, Muzammil Khan, Gaurav Shrivastava, Richa Hirendra Rai, Shabnam Khan, Chhavi Arora Sehgal, Amir Iqbal, Zafrul Has · 2026
Read Sleep and workload mediate the relationship between digital engagement and burnout: a national cross-sectional study of university faculty in India by Mohammad Sidiq, Balamurugan Janakiraman, Faizan Kashoo, Jaya Shanker Tedla, Veeragoudhaman TS, Aksh Chahal, Bartosz Maciej Wojcik, Akriti Pandey, Rajkumar Krishnan Vasanthi, Jyoti Sharma, Muzammil Khan, Gaurav Shrivastava, Richa Hirendra Rai, Shabnam Khan, Chhavi Arora Sehgal, Amir Iqbal, Zafrul Has (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13200393.txt.
Description
Sidiq and co-authors surveyed nearly four thousand Indian university faculty, in a study published in 2026, on how digital life feeds burnout. Heavy screen engagement stretches the working day and frays sleep. Both are suspected bridges from digital load to exhaustion. The national online survey ran across all regions of India through most of 2024. It gathered digital habits, weekly hours, sleep patterns, and burnout scores.
The analysis tested whether hours and sleep carry the effect of digital engagement on burnout. They do, in the authors' mediation model. That gives universities levers: meeting discipline, communication norms, and sleep health, not just resilience training. Faculty burnout erodes teaching and research quality alike. The study's size makes its pattern hard to dismiss. It also maps a post-pandemic profession still renegotiating its boundaries.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mohammad Sidiq, Balamurugan Janakiraman, Faizan Kashoo, Jaya Shanker Tedla, Veeragoudhaman TS, Aksh Chahal, Bartosz Maciej Wojcik, Akriti Pandey, Rajkumar Krishnan Vasanthi, Jyoti Sharma, Muzammil Khan, Gaurav Shrivastava, Richa Hirendra Rai, Shabnam Khan, Chhavi Arora Sehgal, Amir Iqbal, Zafrul Has |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |