The level of digital stress (technostress) among students of the Faculty of Education at Damascus University and its effects

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to determine the level of digital stress (technostress) among the students of the Faculty of Education at the University of Damascus and its effects. Social approval anxiety - availability stress), while the second axis dealt with the effects of digital stress (physical effects - psychological effects). The students of the class teacher (the second year) were deliberately chosen because the researcher had taught them in the first year and she wanted to track their condition and determine their degree of technostress. then, A sample was drawn   in a simple random way from the students of the College of Education , They numbered (280) male and female students, constituting (28.86%) of the total population of (970).

 The results of the research concluded that the levels of digital stress ranged between (medium and high). Where the arithmetic mean for the total number of phrases was (2.35) with a standard deviation of (0.564), which is a high level. Thus, the level of digital stress is high among the students of the Faculty of Education at Damascus University

The results of the research concluded that the levels of digital stress ranged between (medium and high). Where the arithmetic mean of the digital stress axis was (2.21) with a standard deviation of (0.31), which is an average level. Where the arithmetic mean of the overburden dimension of communication was (2.5) with a standard deviation of (0.57), which is a high level. The arithmetic mean of the multitasking dimension was (2.7), with a standard deviation of (0.41), which is a high level. While the arithmetic mean of the dimension of fear of loss was (2.09) with a standard deviation of (0.21), which is an average level. The arithmetic mean of the dimension of social approval anxiety was (1.89) with a standard deviation of (0.32), which is an average level. While the arithmetic mean of the availability stress dimension was (1.87) with a standard deviation of (0.29), which is an average level.While the arithmetic mean of the digital stress effects axis was (2.61), with a standard deviation of (0.51), which is a high level. The researcher suggested the need to educate students about the dangers resulting from excessive use of the Internet and electronic applicationsIn addition to regulating the use of the Internet by setting specific times for students to use mobile phones.