Stress Factors of the Virtual Environment of a Metropolis: Perception of Youth

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study typical stress factors of the urban environment in its virtual refraction in the context of the subjective assessment of their importance by urban youth. As a result of a survey of 210 respondents, in the age range from 18 to 30, living in two large cities of the Ural Federal District, Ekaterinburg and Tyumen, a list of typical stress factors of a virtual city environment was identified, among which the most mentioned by young people are an overabundance of information and a violation of the usability of the information content, and the most stressful are the intrusiveness of virtual city services and deanonymization.