Updating the attitudes toward computer usage scale using American undergraduate students

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 535-543

  Morris, Samantha A ^a   Gullekson, Nicole L ^a   Morse, Brendan J ^a   Popovich, Paula M ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer attitudes; Scale development

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ATTITUDES; INTERNAL CONSISTENCIES; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES; SCALE DEVELOPMENT; TEST-RETEST RELIABILITIES; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

EID: 59049095321     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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