The relationship of instrumental and expressive traits with computer anxiety

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 955-974

  Bozionelos, Nikos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Computer anxiety; Computer experience; Expressiveness; Instrumentality; Instrumentality model; Mediator; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035888820     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00198-7     Document Type: Article

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