A Path Analytic Study of Individual Characteristics, Computer Anxiety and Attitudes toward Microcomputers
研究通过路径分析模型，发现教育程度、外控倾向和数学焦虑影响管理者的计算机焦虑，进而影响其对微型计算机的态度，计算机焦虑是负面态度的最强预测因子。
This study developed and tested a path model of individual difference variables as antecedents of computer anxiety and attitudes toward microcomputers among managers. Results of path analysis of survey data gatheredfrom 166 managers provided moderate support for the proposed model and the pattern of linkages specified among the variables. Results showed education is negatively related to computer anxiety, and external locus of control and math anxiety contribute to increased computer anxiety. Managers' age, education, external locus of control, and thefeeling-thinking dimension of cognitive style are directly related to attitudes toward microcomputers. However, math anxiety and external locus of control affect microcomputer attitudes only indirectly, through their effect on computer anxiety, which is the strongest predictor of negative attitudes toward microcomputers. Implications for the design and success of management information systems involving microcomputers, andfuture research are discussed.