COVID-19 Awareness, Technological Anxiety, and Mandatory Telework–Model Inventory

Abstract

The COVID-19 Awareness, Technological Anxiety, and Mandatory Telework—Model (Singh & Verma, 2023) was developed for a study investigating COVID-19 awareness and employees’ behavior toward mandatory telework. Proposed items were adapted from previous research (Talukder et al., 2020; Verma et al., 2020) or newly developed. The resulting measure, evaluated using structural equation modeling, was administered to a sample of Danish employees, and results concerning reliability and validity were reported.

Keywords

COVID-19 Awareness, Technological Anxiety, Attitude Towards Mandatory Telework, Job Satisfaction, Anxiety, Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Policy Making, Telecommuting, Organizational and Occupational Measures, COVID-19, Health Awareness, Technology Acceptance

Authors

Singh, Vibhav; Verma, Surabhi

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Purpose

The purpose of this measurement model is to assess the influence of COVID-19 awareness and technological anxiety on employees’ attitudes toward mandatory telework and job satisfaction.

Validity

Convergent and Discriminant validity: AVE values of the constructs were between 0.623 and 0.909, indicating convergent validity. Additionally, the square root of AVE was larger than the correlation value for each variable, and all HTMT values between the constructs were below the threshold (0.9; Henseler et al., 2015), supporting the discriminant validity.

Reliability

Internal consistency: Cronbach’s alpha and CR values ranged from 0.691-0.904 and 0.866-0.925 respectively, among the constructs.

Factor Analysis

Common method variance: Harman’s one-factor test (Hair et al., 2017) results revealed that none of the factors displayed variance greater than the threshold value of 50%. The first factor explained 32.4% of the total variance, which was the highest.

Instrument

Test Type

Original Inventory/Questionnaire

Format

Items are rated using a five-point Likert scale (1- “Strongly Disagree” to 5- “Strongly Agree”). The measure includes 12 items.

Language Available

English

Population Group

Human, Male, Female

Age Group

Adolescence (13-17 yrs); Adulthood (18 yrs & older); Young Adulthood (18-29 yrs); Thirties (30-39 yrs); Middle Age (40-64 yrs)

Population Details

Respondents: Employees
Location: Denmark

Test Methodology

Test Validity; Convergent Validity; Discriminant Validity; Test Reliability; Internal Consistency; Measurement Model; Structural Equation Modeling

Keywords

COVID-19 Awareness, Technological Anxiety, Mandatory Telework

Authors

Author ORCID Identifier

Verma, Surabhi: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7641-0637

Affiliation

Singh, Vibhav: Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies University Human Resource Management
Verma, Surabhi: University of Southern Denmark Department of Business and Management

Email Addresses

Verma, Surabhi: [email protected]

Correspondence Address

Verma, Surabhi: [email protected]

Permissions & Fee and Test Year

No data is Available. The test was developed in 2023.

References

Singh, V., & Verma, S. (2023). Impact of COVID-19 awareness and technological anxiety on “mandatory telework”: A Danish case study. Information Technology & People, 36(5), 1790–1809. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-12-2020-0841

Items of the COVID-19 Awareness, Technological Anxiety, and Mandatory Telework–Model

No data is Available.