An examination of computer attitudes, anxieties, and aversions among diverse college populations: Issues central to understanding information sciences in the new millennium

Informing Science

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 77-85

  Burkett, William H ^a   Compton, David M ^a   Burkett, Gail G ^b  

^a Palm Beach Atlantic College   (United States)

^b Palm Beach Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer anxiety; Computer attitude; Computer aversion; Computer avoidance; Computer phobia

Indexed keywords

EID: 18544380843     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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