The Relationship Between Computer Attitude, Academic Major And Profesional Computer Usage : An Empirical Study On Lecturers In UiTM Perlis

The relationship between attitude, major and computer usage was studied using a theoretical path model. Three hypotheses on correlation were tested in this research. A community of lecturers in UiTM Perlis was taken as the subject under study. The study uncovered the fact that
computer attitude is positively correlated with professional usage of computers. Academic major of maths and non-maths is directly correlated with level of professional usage of computers. The finding was that the two variables were significant even though they are inversely correlated. For the relationship between Major and Computer Attitude, the relationship was found to be on a similar note with the latter where, a significant but yet an inverse relationship.