Predictors of performance in software training: Attitudes toward computers versus attitudes toward working with computers

Psychological Reports

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 227-233

  Jawahar, I M ^b   Elango, B ^a  

^a SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0011989159     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1998.83.1.227     Document Type: Article

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