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A Path Analytic Study of Individual Characteristics, Computer Anxiety and Attitudes toward Microcomputers
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This study developed and tested a path model of individual difference variables as antecedents of computer anxiety and attitudes toward microcomputers among managers. Results of path analysis of survey data gatheredfrom 166 managers provided moderate support for the proposed model and the pattern of linkages specified among the variables. Results showed education is negatively related to computer anxiety, and external locus of control and math anxiety contribute to increased computer anxiety. Managers' age, education, external locus of control, and thefeeling-thinking dimension of cognitive style are directly related to attitudes toward microcomputers. However, math anxiety and external locus of control affect microcomputer attitudes only indirectly, through their effect on computer anxiety, which is the strongest predictor of negative attitudes toward microcomputers. Implications for the design and success of management information systems involving microcomputers, andfuture research are discussed.
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- Authors
- Igbaria, M., & Parasuraman, S.
- Venue
- Journal of Management
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1989-09
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 373-388
- ISSN
- 0149-2063 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-1211
- OpenAlex
- W2067007689
- Cited by
- 470
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 16.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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