A STUDY OF COMPUTER PHOBIA AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS TEACHING IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RELATION TO THEIR GENDER

In the present study investigator investigate the computer phobia of senior secondary school teacher teaching in senior secondary school in Himachal Pradesh for this investigation The sample included only school teachers teaching in senior secondary schools of Mandi and Kullu Disttt. of Himachal Pradesh. The study was confined to a sample of 400 teachers. The study was restricted to two variables i.e. computer phobia as dependent variable and gender, independent variables. In the present study Computer Phobia Scale constructed and standardized by Dr. Rajasekar and Dr. Vaiyapuri Raja was used by the researcher. Statistics is a mathematical technique or process of gathering, describing, organizing, analysis and interpreting numerical data. The statistical techniques are used to give meaningful and consider picture of the whole data so that it could be easily comprehended. It is employed to test the hypotheses in the study. In order to study the distribution of computer phobia scores of secondary school teachers, descriptive statistics like mean, median, mode, S.D. ,Q.D., skewness and kurtosis was used. For studying the gender-wise, significance of the difference in the computer phobia among school teachers teaching in senior secondary schools, t-test was used and the investigator find that their was no significant difference in the mean scores of overall computer phobia of male and female school teachers teaching in senior secondary schools.