Consequences of COVID-19 Confinement for Teachers: Family-Work Interactions, Technostress, and Perceived Organizational Support

Patricia Solís García, Rocío Lago Urbano and Sara Real Castelao
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Patricia Solís García: Faculty of Education, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain
Rocío Lago Urbano: Psychology Department, Universidad de Huelva, 21004 Huelva, Spain
Sara Real Castelao: Centro Asociado UNED Ponferrada, 24400 Ponferrada, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 21, 1-9

Abstract: The confinement experienced due to the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a rethink of the teaching–learning process to which teachers have responded without planning and instead used their resources. This study aimed to analyze the relationships between work–family interactions, technostress, and perceived organizational support in teachers during the confinement period in Spain that began in March 2020. An online survey was administered to 640 pre-school, primary, and secondary school teachers. Positive reciprocal work–family interactions and their relationship with organizational support were found, with differences according to gender, with women showing a more negative perception of the impact on the family. There were no marked levels of technostress in the overall sample, although higher levels of perceived ineffectiveness and skepticism were found in teachers aged 46 years or older. Teachers in private and subsidized schools showed a higher level of perceived support than those in public schools. There is a need to continue this work to verify the values of these dimensions in other contexts and to apply institutional measures and public policies to improve these indicators in this group.

Keywords: psychosocial factors; professional-private interplay; COVID-19 pandemic; well-being; teachers; education; technostress; perceived organizational support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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