The relationship between Technostress levels and job satisfaction of Teachers within the COVID-19 period

Abstract

This research aims to determine the technostress levels experienced by teachers in distance education during the COVID-19 period and examine the relationship between this technostress level and job satisfaction. The research was structured in relational comparison type. The attendees comprised 525 teachers working at different echelons of education, determined in accordance with the purposive sampling method. Technostress Scale, job satisfaction scale, and open-ended questions form were used as data collection tools during the research. The data were collected online through Google Forms due to COVID-19 conditions. Descriptive statistics, backward hierarchical multiple regression (BHMR), MANOVA analysis, and inductive content analysis were used for the data analysis. According to the research findings, it was figured out that teachers were exposed to intensive use of technology in distance education, this negatively affected their life and performance, their workload increased, and they had to put much more effort to adapt to modern technologies in the Covid-19 pandemic period. It was found that the teachers’ job satisfaction levels were high in general, and the female teachers’ job satisfaction levels were higher than those of male teachers. The job satisfaction levels of private school teachers were lower than those of public-school teachers. In the research, the gender of teachers and the institution type they work under, both being among the main factors affecting teachers’ technostress level, were determined to make a significant difference. However, the distance education process, conducted during the COVID-19 period, was also noted to involve educational, psychological, and administrative challenges. Based on research results, it is recommended to improve teachers’ online learning and technology literacy skills, and review present undergraduate programs in terms of preparation for distance education.

Teachers’ Work-Related Well-Being in Times of COVID-19: The Effects of Technostress and Online Teaching

“…This relationship was predictable, as the nature of online education requires the use of technology. The result is in line with the reference literature, as the massive use-and even sudden and improvised, in the case of the pandemic period-of technology is connected to negative outcomes for work-related well-being (Aktan and Toraman 2022;Camacho and Barrios 2022). Moreover, the indirect effect of online teaching on the pleasure in working through technostress is moderated by the perceived meaningfulness of the work.…”

“…In the present study, we hypothesize that technostress may have a mediating role in the relationship between the perceptions related to online teaching and the pleasure experienced in working, as online education has necessarily led to the intensive use of technologies and these, in turn, are negatively related to job satisfaction (Aktan and Toraman 2022).…”

“…In the school environment, several variables closely related to technology have been identified that could undermine teachers' work-related well-being. For example, insufficiency of technological literacy, limited access to technology, internet-related problems, and difficulty in classroom management in the online environment (Aktan and Toraman 2022).…”

Occupational Risk of Technostress Related to the Use of ICT among Teachers in Spain

“…In addition, motivated by circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICT tools grew exponentially in importance, and technostress issues emerged as an important cause of concern. As a result, researchers investigated the problem in the pandemic period [37][38][39][40]. Some results found a significant and negative relationship between technostress and the teachers' willingness to use online modalities [38] while another study pointed out higher levels of fatigue and anxiety factors among female teachers during the health crisis [37].…”

PJPR Vol. 37 No. 3 (2022)

“…The burden resulting from the use of the latest technologies in everyday and professional life has coined the term technostress (Sharma & Gupta, 2022). This type of occupational stress is a problem for both employees and organizations because stressful working conditions are related to employee wellbeing, physical health, and work performance, as well as the level of satisfaction or engagement (Aktan & Toraman, 2022).…”