Computer-phobic university students are easy to find today especially when it come to taking online courses. Affect has been shown to influence users’ perceptions of computers. Although self-reported computer anxiety has declined in the past decade, it continues to be a significant issue in higher education and online courses. More importantly, anxiety seems to be a critical variable in relatio...

Learning chemistry in an online environment may have multiple sources of anxiety for students, including anxiety, math computer and trait (personality attribute proneness to experience anxiety). While previous research has explored relationships between a traditional setting, no studies these anxieties the modality. Survey data were collected using existing scales (some with minor modifications...

Perceived ease of use plays a critical role in predicting and determining a user’s decision to use an information system. Users perceive a system easier to use as they gain more knowledge and confidence through direct experience in using the system. Our research traced the link between system experience and ease of use via both positive (computer playfulness) and negative (computer anxiety) res...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of test motivation on estimated ability, test anxiety, and attitudes toward computerized adaptive testing (CAT). Korean college students (n=208) were given the Math Aptitude Test, Math Self-Concept Scale, Math Test Anxiety Scale, Computer Competence Instrument, Computer Anxiety Scale, and Test Anxiety Inventory in the regular classroom. Th...

Organizations make significant investments in information technology. However, if individuaJs do not use infonnation system applications as anticipated, successful implementation can be hard to achieve. In order to investigate some key factors thought to affect an individual's use of information technology. this study draws 00 Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory (SCl"), Triandis's Theory of Inter...

Researchers have found computer self-efficacy to be important to technology adoption. Past research has treated computer self-efficacy (CSE) as a unitary concept. This study proposes that CSE has two dimensions—individual and human-assisted. Using items drawn from the Compeau and Higgins’[CoHi95b] CSE instrument, the paper examines each dimension’s relationship to computer anxiety and perceived...

This article examines within-culture variance in the influence of values on perceptions and use of information technology (IT). Based on cross-cultural research, we suggest that cultural values influence technology acceptance and use. Specifically, we argue that masculinity/femininity and individualism/collectivism directly influence personal innovativeness with IT, computer anxiety, and comput...

We examined sources of Internet anxiety; specifically modeling the ties from broad dispositional traits (computer anxiety, computer self-efficacy, and personal innovativeness with IT), beliefs about the work environment (about the adequacy of resources and trust in technology), and two forms of social support for IT (leader and peer support) to individuals’ anxiety about using Internet applicat...

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between pre-service teachers’ perceptions regarding technology use in mathematics teaching and their computer literacy levels as well as their mathematics teaching anxiety. The nonexperimental correlational research, which is included in the quantitative research approach, was used in the study. A total of 481 pre-service mathematics teache...

The lack of equivalence between computerized and pencil-and-paper administration in measures of negative affect have been attributed to variance created by negative affect towards computers or computer anxiety (CA). In the current study, paper baseline computer anxiety and state/trait anxiety measures were obtained from 51 first-year psychology undergraduate volunteers. Further measures were ta...