Computer anxiety: sex, race and age

doi:10.1016/S0020-7373(86)80084-0

International Journal of Man-Machine Studies

Volume 25, Issue 6, December 1986, Pages 711-719

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Two studies are described in this article. The first examined antecedents of computer anxiety and the second exposed two groups of subjects who had no previous experience with computers to two treatments designed to lower the anxiety.

Results indicated that for those persons with high anxiety an English composition course treatment in which students used word-processing as a tool was more significantly effective than was a course in computer programming in reducing computer anxiety. The programming course, however, was significantly more effective in reducing anxiety than was no treatment. Women were represented more often than men in the high-anxiety conditions. Results are discussed in terms of appropriate training techniques in educational and workplace environments to lower anxiety in vulnerable populations so that all might participate in the technological revolution.

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Computer anxiety: sex, race and age

International Journal of Man-Machine Studies

Secretarial attitudes towards word processors as a function of familiarity and locus of control

Behaviour and Information Technology

School uses of microcomputers

Managing Technostress: optimizing the use of computer technology

Personnel Journal

Regardless of sex

Mathematics Teacher

Computers in the classroom

Psychology Today

Computers and girls: rethinking the issues

Sex Roles

Workers said fearful of Creeping Automation

Computerworld

Equal time for women

Discover

Women, girls, and computers: a look at the evidence

Sex Roles

Sex differences in microcomputer literacy