Are MIS research instruments stable? An exploratory reconsideration of the computer playfulness scale

Authors:
Alexander Serenko;Ofir Turel
Affiliations:
Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario P7B 5E1, Canada;College of Business and Economics, California State University-Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834-6848, USA
Venue:
Information and Management
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Computer systems have changed significantly in the past decades and this means that MIS research instruments developed when surveying users of legacy systems could be out-of-date. However, these instruments are often considered stable. We undertook an empirical exploratory investigation of the unidimensionality of the computer playfulness scale because several academics had reported inconsistent item loadings that they could not explain. As a result of our investigation, we concluded that the original computer playfulness construct consists of two correlated but distinct factors when administered to today's IS users. Negatively worded items had no impact on the properties of the scale. Temporal structural stability was hypothesized as an explanation of the observed shift in this construct's psychometric properties.