The relationship of psychological type to computer aptitude, attitudes, and behavior

摘要

Based on a review of research on the relationship of personality factors to human-computer interaction, Pocius (1991) concluded that there was little evidence for a relationship between Jungian psychological types and programming aptitude and mixed evidence regarding psychological type and computer-related attitudes. However, the studies on which Pocius based this conclusion suffered from a number of methodological flaws, including small sample sizes and restricted samples. In the present study, data from 471 introductory psychology students revealed that some dimensions of psychological type were related to computer aptitude, attitudes, and behavior, with psychological type interacting with participant sex in two instances. Implications of these findings are discussed.