Technostress levels of science field faculty members in the Kyrgyz Republic

The purpose of this study was to examine the technostress levels of science field faculty members in the Kyrgyz Republic. The relational survey model was used to investigate whether there was a significant difference and a relationship between demographic variables such as gender, age, field of science, seniority, technological education level, and availability of a personal computer in terms of technostress and its sub-dimensions. The sample of the study consisted of 274 science faculty members, with 156 females and 118 males working at different universities in the Kyrgyz Republic. “Personal Data Form” and “Defining Teachers’ Technostress Levels Scale” were used as data collection tools in the study. The results showed that the general technostress levels of the participants were at a medium level. General technostress levels and technostress sub-dimensions scores of science faculty members did not differ by their genders, ages, seniorities, technology educations, and availability of their computers. There was a low level of positive correlation between age and the scores of the occupational and personal sub-dimensions of technostress; It was determined that there was a low-level, positive, statistically significant relationship between the seniority variable and the personal-oriented sub-dimension. It can be concluded that as the year of seniority progresses, academicians' technostress scores also increase. These findings reveal that seniority has certain effects on the technostress levels of academicians, but these effects vary based on sub-dimensions.