ATTITUDES TOWARDS COMPUTER: ELABORATION AND VALIDATION OF A SCALE

• Autor(a) principal: Gouveia, Valdiney Velôso
• Data de Publicação: 2001
• Outros Autores: Andrade, Josemberg Moura de, Queiroga, Fabiana, Meira, Maja
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6607
• topic: Atitude; Ansiedade; Computador; Escala; Attitude; Anxiety; Computer; Scale

This study aimed to construct the Attitudes Towards Computer Scale, estab/ishing its psychometric parameters. There were two factors as hypothesis: Autonomous Machine and lnteracting lnstrument. At the beginning there were 100 items, reduced to 50 after theoretica/ and semantical analysis, and discriminatory power. Based on answers of 487 subjects, a PAF analysis was performed, with oblimin rotation, which resulted in two different factors from those formulated: Positive Attitudes and Negative Attitudes, with Cronbach's Alphas of 77 and 74, respectively. These two factors together explain 16.3% of the variability of the scores. Finally, the correlation between such factors (r = -.48, p<,000)  suggested a unifactorial scale, with the 31 items and Alpha of .83. lt was conc/uded that the instrument can be useful to diagnose the attitudes of the potential computer user and to know how the general population perceive this machine.