Workplace Anxiety and Technology Implementation Among Late Middle Aged College Professors in the Covid Era

Abstract

The study focuses on the association between workplace anxiety of late middle aged college professors and technology implementation with regard to the institutional preparedness of colleges in regard to technology as the Covid Pandemic has started. The study was conducted on 30 males and 30 females who are above age 50. It explored the difference in workplace anxiety in technology underdeveloped and technology enabled colleges in Karnataka and Kerala. Job Anxiety Scale (JAS) is given for checking the anxiety level in the workplace and Questionnaire for Survey of Technology-Enabled Learning in Educational Institutions is used to understand whether the college system is technology underdeveloped or technology enabled. The results found a significant negative correlation between workplace anxiety and technology implementation. According to the current study, workplace anxiety is more or less the same for male and female college professors. When compared to professors in technology-enabled college settings, it has been discovered that college professors in underdeveloped college settings experience more workplace anxiety due to the low income status.