ATTITUDES TOWARDS COMPUTER: ELABORATION AND VALIDATION OF A SCALE
This study aimed to construct the Attitudes Towards Computer Scale, estab/ishing its psychometric parameters. There were two factors as hypothesis: Autonomous Machine and lnteracting lnstrument. At the beginning there were 100 items, reduced to 50 after theoretica/ and semantical analysis, and discr...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2001 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMPINAS) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br:article/6607 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6607 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Atitude Ansiedade Computador Escala Attitude Anxiety Computer Scale |
| Sumario: | This study aimed to construct the Attitudes Towards Computer Scale, estab/ishing its psychometric parameters. There were two factors as hypothesis: Autonomous Machine and lnteracting lnstrument. At the beginning there were 100 items, reduced to 50 after theoretica/ and semantical analysis, and discriminatory power. Based on answers of 487 subjects, a PAF analysis was performed, with oblimin rotation, which resulted in two different factors from those formulated: Positive Attitudes and Negative Attitudes, with Cronbach's Alphas of 77 and 74, respectively. These two factors together explain 16.3% of the variability of the scores. Finally, the correlation between such factors (r = -.48, p<,000) suggested a unifactorial scale, with the 31 items and Alpha of .83. lt was conc/uded that the instrument can be useful to diagnose the attitudes of the potential computer user and to know how the general population perceive this machine. |
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