Self-efficacy and digital anxiety and their influence on virtual educational performance: a diagnostic study in a sample of students from a private university in Lima – Peru

• Autores: Iraola Arroyo, Juan Alonso, Vasquez, Carla, Diaz-Leon, Ivan, Iraola-Real, Ivan
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
• Repositorio: UTP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.utp.edu.pe:20.500.12867/7209
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12867/7209; https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v18i09.36183
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Self-efficacy; Information and Communication Technologies; Anxiety; Virtual education; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.03.01

Digital self-efficacy is the personal confidence to use technology tools efficiently. Digital self-efficacy reduces anxiety and increases student per-formance. For these reasons, the present research proposes to analyze the levels of digital self-efficacy and anxiety, as well as their influence on virtual performance in university students in Peru. 116 students participated, 105 females (90.5%) and1 1 males (9.5%) between 17 and50 years of age (Mean = 26.78, SD = 7.02). The results showed that the students have optimal levels of digital self-efficacy and virtual performance. Nevertheless, they were hesitant to feel digital anxiety. Then, digital self-efficacy was related to virtual performance. Finally, the con-cept “digital native” is discussed because the youngest students did not achieve optimal levels of digital self-efficacy, neither with low levels of digital anxiety.