MEASURING ATTITUDE TOWARD COMPUTERS AMONG UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE-STUDENTS - THE AFFECTIVE DOMAIN

This paper describes the development of a new measure of attitude towards computers for use among undergraduate students which operationalizes the affective attitudinal domain. Item selection, the internal structure of the scale and content validity were established on a sample of 387 first year undergraduate students in Wales. Tentative scale norms are presented separately for male and female students, but no gender effect was present.