Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Technophobia
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Prevalence== A study published in the journal ''[[Computers in Human Behavior]]'' was conducted between 1992 and 1994 surveying first-year college students across various countries.<ref name=studentstudy>{{cite journal|doi = 10.1016/0747-5632(94)00026-E|first1 = Michelle M.|last1= Weil|first2= Larry D.|last2 = Rosen|title = A Study of Technological Sophistication and Technophobia in University Students From 23 Countries|journal = Computers in Human Behavior|volume = 11|issue = 1 |pages = 95β133|year = 1995|quote = Over a two-year period, from 1992β1994, data were collected from 3,392 first year university students in 38 universities from 23 countries on their level of technological sophistication and level of technophobia.}}</ref> The overall percentage of the 3,392<ref name="W&R table-2"/> students who responded with high-level technophobic fears was 29%.<ref name="W&R table-2">{{cite journal|doi = 10.1016/0747-5632(94)00026-E|first1 = Michelle M.|last1= Weil|first2= Larry D.|last2 = Rosen|title = A Study of Technological Sophistication and Technophobia in University Students From 23 Countries|journal = Computers in Human Behavior|volume = 11|issue = 1 |pages = 95β133|year = 1995|quote = "Table 2. Percentage of Students in each country who possessed high levels of technophobia"}}; several points are worth noting from Table 2. First, a group of countries including Indonesia, Poland, India, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Mexico and Thailand show large percentages (over 50%) of technophobic students. In contrast, there are five countries which show under 30% technophobes (US, Yugoslavia β Croatia, Singapore, Israel and Hungary). The remaining countries were in between these two groupings.</ref> In comparison, [[Japan]] had 58% high-level technophobes and [[Mexico]] had 53%.<ref name="W&R table-2" /> A published report in 2000 stated that roughly 85β90% of new employees at an organization may be uncomfortable with new technology, and are technophobic to some degree.<ref name=orgstudy>{{cite web |url=http://www.learningcircuits.org/2000/mar2000/mar2000_elearn.html |title=Index β Learning Circuits β ASTD |publisher=Learning Circuits |access-date=2010-06-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511165100/http://www.learningcircuits.org/2000/mar2000/mar2000_elearn.html |archive-date=2008-05-11 }}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Technophobia
(section)
Add topic