A Study of Attitude towards Use of Computers, Computer Related Anxiety and Computer Related Self-Efficacy among College Students

The study focused on exploring attitude towards use of computers, computer related anxiety and computer related self-efficacy among college students in relation to gender, stream and social class. The data were collected from 300 government and private degree college students of Sangrur district of Punjab. The results of the study revealed significant stream-wise differences in attitude of college students towards use of computers and computer related anxiety, respectively. Further, arts, commerce and professional students possessed significantly more favourable attitude and significantly more computer related anxiety towards use of computers as compared to their science counterparts, respectively. Significant differences were reported in computer related anxiety among college students in relation to social class. On the contrary, no significant gender differences were found in attitude of college students towards use of computers, computer related anxiety and computer related self-efficacy. Also, no significant stream-wise differences were found in computer related self-efficacy among college students. Non-significant differences were also reported in attitude of college students towards use of computers and computer related self-efficacy in relation to social class, respectively. These results of the study have implications for counsellors, teachers and parents.