The increasingly widespread use of technology has led to the emergence of phenomena harmful to users such as technostress. Although technostress has already been studied in other contexts, it is still pending study in a university education environment, where the use of information and communication technologies is increasingly widespread. Thus, the objective of this study was to adapt a technostress questionnaire for Spanish university students based on an instrument that had been designed in a Chinese university teaching population. A total of 1,744 Spanish university students from faceto-face and online universities completed the adapted Spanish technostress scale. Factorial analyses suggested the elimination of two items from the original scale and a model made up of five factors that fit, as in the original scale, within the personenvironment misfit theory. The reduced scale also showed good internal consistency for all the items and the five resulting factors. These results support the psychometric properties of the reduced technostress scale in university students, and their validity when offering a complete view of the phenomenon in Spain.
El ser humano experimenta emociones desde su nacimiento hasta la muerte que determinan la autopercepción del mundo que le rodea permitiendo establecer relaciones personales y sociales. El mundo globalizado actual ha generado un aumento del individualismo de alta competitividad, donde las emociones y sentimientos son elementos negados, lo que produce un analfabetismo emocional y la incapacidad de expresar sentimientos y emociones. El objetivo de este estudio se centra en identificar la percepción emocional de 816 estudiantes universitarios que cursan titulaciones de Ciencias de la Educación e Ingeniería Informática de la Universidad de A Coruña, mediante un cuestionario elaborado ad hoc (EPeQue: Emotional Perception Questionnaire). Los resultados muestran que el reconocimiento de las emociones de envidia y celos se sitúa en un nivel superior de reconocimiento, seguido de la identificación de las emociones en los demás, la vergüenza/culpa, auto-reconocimiento de emociones, seguido de la alegría, el miedo, la rabia, la ira/enfado y la tristeza. Los datos aportados por esta investigación permiten abrir puertas a otros campos relacionados con las competencias emocionales personales, académicas y profesionales, contribuyendo a la plena integración de los estudiantes universitarios en la nueva forma de entender la enseñanza, como un proceso centrado en el estudiante.
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