The Factorial structure of technology anxiety scale and its relationship to some demographic variables among faculty of education students

The current study seeks to develop a scale for technological anxiety, define its psychometric qualities, and determine the scale's reliability and validity. Technology anxiety is an emotional state which leads an individual to have negative feelings about using technology and drives the user to avoid any information and communication technology (Wilson, 2018). Due to the expansion of the use of technology in all fields, including the field of education and learning, it has become necessary to study all factors related to the acceptance and use of information technology by student teachers. The current study drew on data from 581 third-year students from the Faculty of Education at Suez Canal University enrolled in an educational technology course. The results indicated that the global structure of technology anxiety consists of four sub-dimensions: fear of failure in dealing with technological problems, negative future outcomes related to technology applications, anxiety about using technology applications due to insufficient infrastructure, and stress or discomfort resulting from using technology in education. The model had good stability and goodness-of-fit indicators. The results revealed that there were no statistically significant differences attributed to gender in the technological anxiety variable when the differences between males and females students were examined.