A survey of 143 faculty members and graduate students who had not yet used the self-checkout library system available at a large Canadian university was conducted to examine the relationships between five stable personality traits and computer self-efficacy. Our results suggest that extraversion is positively and neuroticism is negatively related to computer self-efficacy. Implications for rese...

Computer systems performance is being improved today using two major approaches: general-purpose computers computing power increase (creation of multicore processors, multiprocessor computer systems, supercomputers), and adaptation of the computer hardware to the executed algorithm (class of algorithms). Last approach often provides application of the ASIC-based and FPGA-based hardware accelera...

A six-factor model of computer anxiety was tested in two samples of university students. The dimensions involved were: computer literacy, self-ecacy, physical arousal caused by computers, a€ective feelings about them, beliefs about the bene®cial e€ects of computers, and beliefs about their dehumanizing aspects. Con®rmatory factor analyses showed that, compared to a number of alternative models...

This study investigated the function of social supports and computer self-efficacy in predicting high school students’ perceived effect of computer use. The study was survey method to collect data. The questionnaires were distributed to the high school students in Taiwan. 620 questionnaires were distributed and 525 questionnaires were gathered back with 84.67% return rate. The results of struct...

Two studies investigated the validity of computer self-efficacy and computer anxiety scales when administered to an Internet sample. In the first study, it was found that existing measures of computer self-efficacy and anxiety, originally developed through paper-and-pencil methods with more traditional samples, were not adequately equivalent when administered to a sample that was recruited and ...

The literature defines computer self-efficacy (CSE) as a “judgment of one’s capability” to apply computer technology to specific tasks (e.g. send an electronic file to a friend or preparing an electronic presentation). [3, p.192] Recent research has expanded the concept to offer a model of general computer self-efficacy and task specific self-efficacy. [9] This paper expands the model further b...