Understanding changes in belief and attitude toward information technology usage: A theoretical model and longitudinal test

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bhattacherjee, A; Premkumar, G
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; Iowa State University
• 刊物名称: MIS QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0276-7783
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 229-254
• 关键词: STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; customer satisfaction; acceptance model; determinants; expectations; DISCONFIRMATION; adoption

摘要

User beliefs and attitudes are key perceptions driving information technology usage. These perceptions, however, may change with time as users gain first-hand experience with IT usage, which, in turn, may change their subsequent IT usage behavior. This paper elaborates how users' beliefs and attitudes change during the course of their IT usage, defines emergent constructs driving such change, and proposes a temporal model of belief and attitude change by drawing on expectation-disconfirmation theory and the extant IT usage literature. Student data from two longitudinal studies in end-user computing (computer-based training system usage) and system development (rapid application development software usage) contexts provided empirical support for the hypothesized model, demonstrated its generalizability across technologies and usage contexts, and allowed us to probe context-specific differences. Content analysis of qualitative data validated some of our quantitative results. We report that emergent factors such as disconfirmation and satisfaction are critical to understanding changes in IT users' beliefs and attitudes and recommend that they be included in future process models of IT usage.