Does computer anxiety reach levels which conform to DSM IV criteria for specific phobia?

Thorpe, Susan J.; Brosnan, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2004.12.006

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“…One of the major findings in this study is that about .3% (f=2) of the participants have phobic reactions towards computers at the psychopathological level and require serious attention and probably psychological help according to DSM IV guidelines (Thorpe & Brosnan, 2007). These participants experience a high level of fear and anxiety towards computers and they resist thinking or talking about computers.…”

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“…Second, they tend to communicate their psychological, behavioral or cognitive characteristics with their students. Third, when computerphobia uncontrollably increases, it may lead to other types of phobias and psychopathology becomes clinical (Bourne, 2005;Thorpe & Brosnan, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The research shows that teachers have noticeably high levels of computer anxiety (Beckers & Schmidt, 2001;Deniz, 2007;Korobili, Togia, & Malliari, 2010;Levine & Donitsa-Schmidt, 1998;Rosen & Weil, 1995;Thorpe & Brosnan, 2007;Wilson, 1999). Thus, treating computerphobia includes very early interventions and requires professional help.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Computerphobia in Preservice Teachers

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2016

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This study proposes an instrument to determine and categorize computerphobia in college students, and reports findings from implementation of this instrument on education majors in a northeastern university in Turkey. 829 teacher education students were administered computerphobia scale (CPS) after they attended an introductory computer course. Factor analysis, CFA and GLM methods are utilized for data analysis. Results indicate a reliable instrument and significant differences for gender, computer ownership, and computer experiences. Females had significantly higher CPS scores. Computer ownership and experience with computers reversely related to computerphobia. It is recommended to expose teacher candidates more to computer-using opportunities and carefully designed computer education arrangements.

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Sanalan¹

2016

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“…Users were asked to respond to the items thinking about how they generally feel (rather than how they felt at that moment). This measure has been used to measure trait anxiety extensively in a variety of psychological research (Beckers et al, 2007;Benetti and Kambouropoulos, 2006;Chambers et al, 2004;Eysenk and Van Berkum, 1992;Thorpe and Brosnan, 2007). Trait anxiety was measured using a 4 point Likert Scale ranging from ''Almost Never'' (1) to ''Almost Always'' (4) referring to the frequency of feeling.…”

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Exploring the wiki user experience: The effects of training spaces on novice user usability and anxiety towards wiki editing

Cowan

Jack

2011

Interacting with Computers

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a b s t r a c tWith the advent of Web 2.0, the number of IT systems used in university courses is growing. Yet research consistently shows that a significant proportion of students are anxious about computer use. The quality of first experience with computers has been consistently mentioned as a significant contributor to anxiety onset. However the effect of users' first experience on system related anxiety has not to the authors' knowledge been researched using controlled experiments. Indeed little experiment based research has been conducted on the wiki user experience, specifically users' evaluations and emotional reactions towards editing. This research uses usability engineering principles to engineer four different wiki experiences for novice wiki users and measures the effect each has on usability, anxiety during editing and on anxiety about future wiki editing. Each experience varied in the type of training spaces available before completing six live wiki editing tasks. We found that anxiety experienced by users was not related to computer anxiety but was wiki specific. Users in the in-built tutorial conditions also rated the usability of the editing interface higher than users in the non-tutorial conditions. The tutorial conditions also led to a significant reduction in wiki anxiety during interaction but did not significantly affect future editing anxiety. The findings suggest that the use of an in-built tutorial reduces emotional and technological barriers to wiki editing and that controlled experiments can help in discovering how aspects of the system experience can be designed to affect usability and anxiety towards editing wikis.

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“…Internet-related anxiety was identified from responses to the Clinical Computer Anxiety Scale (CCA) (Brosnan & Thorpe, 2006;Thorpe & Brosnan, 2007). This is based upon the DSM-IV criteria for simple phobias.…”

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The Impact of Pathological Levels of Internet-Related Anxiety on Internet Usage

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Gavin

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Journal of Educational Computing Research

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This article compares the use of the Internet during the first year of university education of students who have pathological levels of Internet anxiety with those who do not. Two hundred and sixteen first year psychology students (females 184, males 32) were surveyed for their levels of Internet-related anxiety, from which 12 (5.6%) were identified as having pathological levels (termed "technophobic"). At the beginning of the year, there were no differences in Internet usage between the two groups. However, at the end of the academic year, the non-technophobic group had increased their Internet usage, while the technophobic group had decreased their Internet usage. For the technophobic group, changes in Internet-related anxiety over the academic year correlated with changes in Internet usage. The technophobic 341 Ó 2012, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.

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Does computer anxiety reach levels which conform to DSM IV criteria for specific phobia?

Cited by 24 publications

References 33 publications

Computerphobia in Preservice Teachers

Computerphobia in Preservice Teachers

Exploring the wiki user experience: The effects of training spaces on novice user usability and anxiety towards wiki editing

The Impact of Pathological Levels of Internet-Related Anxiety on Internet Usage

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