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A survey for measuring internet anxiety types

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Santosh Kumar Kalwar,

Kari Heikkinen,

Jari PorrasAuthors Info & Claims

CompSysTech '12: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies

Pages 337 - 344

https://doi.org/10.1145/2383276.2383325

Published: 22 June 2012 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe a paper-based survey for measuring seven Internet anxiety types. A paper-based survey was distributed among seventy university participants and forty-nine responded with a valid response. The evaluation and analysis of seven types of Internet anxiety revealed internal consistency and acceptable reliability. The findings also suggested for omitting non-significant Internet anxiety types. The results showed that a user feeling while browsing is independent on level of familiarity with the Internet contents.

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June 2012

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ISBN:9781450311939

DOI:10.1145/2383276

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Technical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
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Tullis TSiegel MMackay WBrewster SBødker S(2013)Does ad blindness on the web vary by age and gender?CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2468356.2468685(1833-1838)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2013
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