Attitude Toward Electronic Information Resources Usage Among Afghan Students In Malaysia

Abstract

The usage of electronic information resources in university libraries is increasing and expanding, enhancing its functionality as an information provider and self-learning tool among students. The attitude toward the use of electronic information resources can predict the future use of electronic information resources among users. The objective of this study is to examine attitude toward electronic information resources among Afghan international university students in Malaysia. In this study, Technology Acceptance Model was used to examine the effect of five variables that is perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective norm, facilitating conditions and electronic information resources complexity on attitude toward electronic information resources use. Data were collected through an online survey from 117 Afghan international university students and was analyzed using descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation and multiple regressions analysis using SPSS version 23. This study found strong and positive relationship between four variables namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, subjective norm, and facilitating conditions. This study also found that three variables were found to be significant predictors namely perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and facilitating conditions. However, two other variables namely subjective norm and electronic information resources complexity were not significant. The implication of the study is that universities should provide long term and compulsory electronic information resources courses, online multimedia guides and establish a technical department who can assist their international students.