Role of Happiness: Mediating Digital Technology and Job Performance Among Lecturers
PurposeHappiness has been the most important goal for humans throughout history and is a significant issue among university lecturers facing a rapid digital technology change. It is usually described as a well-being state, feeling satisfied and contented, consisting of positive happenings in an indi...
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| author | Yuni Ros Bangun Adita Pritasari Fransisca Budyanto Widjaja Christina Wirawan Anggara Wisesa Henndy Ginting |
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| description | PurposeHappiness has been the most important goal for humans throughout history and is a significant issue among university lecturers facing a rapid digital technology change. It is usually described as a well-being state, feeling satisfied and contented, consisting of positive happenings in an individual’s life concerning the social, spiritual, economic, psychological, and physiological spheres. This research examines the relationship between happiness, attitudes toward technology, and lecturers’ job performance in higher education.Design and MethodologyThis research design was a cross-sectional design that asked the respondents from lecturers of Institut Teknologi Bandung, one of the best universities with technology-based education in Indonesia, to complete a group of well-validated questionnaires. The questionnaires mentioned earlier include the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire and three other newly constructed questionnaires, made to measure attitude toward digital technology, job satisfaction, and job performance.FindingsThis research confirmed that happiness fully mediated the relationship between attitude toward digital technology and job performance. Additionally, this research also confirmed that happiness partially mediated the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. These results implied that a positive attitude toward digital technology and higher job satisfaction would lead to happier lecturers who increase their job performance.OriginalityThis study suggests that a positive attitude toward technology has a higher impact than job satisfaction as determinant factors of happiness and its association with lecturers’ job performance such as universities, especially Institut Teknologi Bandung as a technologically advanced workplace environment. Additionally, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire framework, frequently used in studies of other countries, is now being used in the context of an Indonesian case study, precisely to measure happiness among lecturers in Indonesian higher education. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-21cd86ae7b7942c28306f4d4552a0a792022-12-21T20:17:05ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-02-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.593155593155Role of Happiness: Mediating Digital Technology and Job Performance Among LecturersYuni Ros Bangun0Adita Pritasari1Fransisca Budyanto Widjaja2Christina Wirawan3Anggara Wisesa4Henndy Ginting5School of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaSchool of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaSchool of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaIndustrial Engineering Department, Universitas Kristen Maranatha, Bandung, IndonesiaSchool of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaSchool of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, IndonesiaPurposeHappiness has been the most important goal for humans throughout history and is a significant issue among university lecturers facing a rapid digital technology change. It is usually described as a well-being state, feeling satisfied and contented, consisting of positive happenings in an individual’s life concerning the social, spiritual, economic, psychological, and physiological spheres. This research examines the relationship between happiness, attitudes toward technology, and lecturers’ job performance in higher education.Design and MethodologyThis research design was a cross-sectional design that asked the respondents from lecturers of Institut Teknologi Bandung, one of the best universities with technology-based education in Indonesia, to complete a group of well-validated questionnaires. The questionnaires mentioned earlier include the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire and three other newly constructed questionnaires, made to measure attitude toward digital technology, job satisfaction, and job performance.FindingsThis research confirmed that happiness fully mediated the relationship between attitude toward digital technology and job performance. Additionally, this research also confirmed that happiness partially mediated the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. These results implied that a positive attitude toward digital technology and higher job satisfaction would lead to happier lecturers who increase their job performance.OriginalityThis study suggests that a positive attitude toward technology has a higher impact than job satisfaction as determinant factors of happiness and its association with lecturers’ job performance such as universities, especially Institut Teknologi Bandung as a technologically advanced workplace environment. Additionally, the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire framework, frequently used in studies of other countries, is now being used in the context of an Indonesian case study, precisely to measure happiness among lecturers in Indonesian higher education.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.593155/fulldigital technologyhappinessjob performancelecturers’ performanceoxford happiness questionnairework happiness |
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| title | Role of Happiness: Mediating Digital Technology and Job Performance Among Lecturers |
| title_full | Role of Happiness: Mediating Digital Technology and Job Performance Among Lecturers |
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| title_short | Role of Happiness: Mediating Digital Technology and Job Performance Among Lecturers |
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| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.593155/full |
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