Always connected @ work. Technostress and well-being with academics

Over the recent years, technology has emerged as a challenge to academics' well-being and performance, technostress being regarded as a “dark-side” of ICT. On the other hand, ICT brings benefits to the academics’ professional activity, making their work at a distance possible. Therefore, the main aim of the present paper is to analyse the way in which the effective use of technology and personal factors explain the well-being of higher education teachers at the workplace. A cross-sectional correlation research design was used for this study. The sample consisted of 1813 university teachers from public and private universities. The findings have shown that technology self-efficacy, core self-evaluations, performance expectancy, facilitating conditions, use of technology and technostress predict well-being at work, with technostress and the use of technology mediating this relationship. Our study also shows that The Use of the Technology Scale is a reliable and valid instrument for the assessment of the academic working context. The findings of this study represent a starting point for considering some strategic decisions at the level of human resources management in higher education institutions with respect to the use of IT tools. •Personal factors and use of technology predict well-being at work.•Technostress mediates the effects of core self-evaluations on well-being.•Technostress mediates the effects of technology self-efficacy on well-being.•The use of technology explains the relationship between personal factors and well-being.•The use of the technology scale is a reliable and valid instrument.