Telework: A look at techno-stress in teaching as an emerging risk

Abstract

The pandemic compelled teleworking to become a priority modality, confronting workers with challenging situations. That tested their ability to perform their duties. This new reality, which has become a permanent feature of the labor landscape, has triggered emerging psychosocial impacts such as techno – stress. The main objective of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of the Technostress Network Scale in a sample of Ecuadorian teachers, confirming the factor structure proposed by. Llorens et al. (2011). Additionally, the relationships between the dimensions of technostress were explored according to the sociodemographic and professional characteristics of the population analyzed. The instrument was applied a sample of 327 Ecuadorian educators (including both university and secondary school teachers). The results underwent a psychometric analysis of the items and confirmatory factor analysis using structural equation modeling. These methods allowed for the identification of relationship between fatigue and anxiety and confirmed the regulatory role of anxiety within the broader framework of the categories studied.