Computer attitude as a moderator in the relationship between computer anxiety, satisfaction, and stress

  • Authors:

  • Satyanarayana Parayitam;Kiran J. Desai;Mayur S. Desai;Mary K. Eason

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Management and Marketing, Charlton College of Business, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA;Department of Management, Marketing, and General Business, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 70609, USA;JHJ School of Business, Texas Southern University, 3100 Cleburne Avenue, Houston, TX 77004, USA;Department of Management, Marketing, and General Business, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 70609, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Human Behavior
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The present study empirically examines the relationship between computer anxiety, job satisfaction, career satisfaction, and stress. Based on self-efficacy theory and self-worth theory of achievement-motivation, it is hypothesized that the relationship between computer anxiety and job satisfaction is curvilinear and attitude towards computer moderates such relationship. The relationship between computer anxiety and career satisfaction and job stress were empirically examined in this study. Two hundred and thirty undergraduate students (125 female and 105 male students) at a university in south-western part of Louisiana completed computer anxiety, computer attitude, job satisfaction, career satisfaction and stress surveys. Hierarchical moderated regression results support that the attitude towards computer acts as a moderator in the relationship between (i) computer anxiety and stress, (ii) computer anxiety and job satisfaction, and (iii) computer anxiety and career satisfaction. Implications for management are discussed.