TECHNOSTRESS, COMPUTER SELF-EFFICACY AND PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS: DIFFERENCE IN TYPE OF SCHOOL, GENDER AND AGE

Technostress can be seen as a relevant factor that may affect teacher satisfaction and teachers' performance. The objective of the study was to explore the technostress in relation to computer self-efficacy and perceived organizational support among secondary school teachers. The present study was conducted on 11 schools (both CBSE and PSEB) of Amritsar District of Punjab by using descriptive survey method. The researcher had taken 200 secondary school teachers as a sample on the basis of convenience sampling. The researcher had used 3 tools i.e., Technostress Scale by Nathan and Nathan (2002), Computer Self-Efficacy Scale by Singh (2018) and Perceived Organizational Support Scale by Eisenberger et al. (1986) to collect data for the study. The Study revealed that PSEB school teachers have more technostress than CBSE teachers. Further, the results revealed that male teachers and female teachers do not differ with respect to technostress and computer self-efficacy. However, female teachers perceived more organizational support than male teachers. The study also found that teachers of different age groups do not differ with respect to technostress and perceived organizational support. However, teachers of age group 20-30yrs exhibited better Computer Self-Efficacy followed by teachers 30-40yrs, 40-50yrs, above 50yrs. The research findings suggests that the government of Punjab, NCERT and SCERT should be aware about the need of the time and should provide hands-on experiences of ICT in education and provide training of ICT integration for the development of teachers which help to improve the learning of the students.