Technostress of Chilean Teachers in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Teleworking

Carla Estrada-Muñoz, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Dante Castillo, Sheyla Müller-Pérez and Joan Boada-Grau
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Carla Estrada-Muñoz: Departamento de Ergonomía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4070386, Chile
Alejandro Vega-Muñoz: Public Policy Observatory, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 7500912, Chile
Dante Castillo: Centro de Estudios e Investigación Enzo Faletto, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 9170022, Chile
Sheyla Müller-Pérez: Public Policy Observatory, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 7500912, Chile
Joan Boada-Grau: Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 10, 1-14

Abstract: This article shows the levels of technostress in primary and secondary education teachers in Chile, in the context of educational telework that Chile has adopted in connection with the health crisis by COVID-19. The information has been collected with the use of the RED-TIC scale, previously used in this country, whose validity and reliability of the instrument has been treated, for this case, with confirmatory factorial analysis (CFA) with a national coverage sample of 3006 teachers. The results show that 11% of teachers reveal techno anxiety and 7.2%, techno fatigue. Combining both manifestations, we find that 6.8% of teachers are techno stressed. Finally, fatigue and anxiety factors are higher for female teachers.

Keywords: mental health; technostress; education; dark side; information overload; skepticism; fatigue; anxiety; inefficacy; confirmatory factor analysis (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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