The Francis Attitude Toward Computers Scale was originally developed in the United Kingdom to operationalise the affective domain of attitude toward computers The present study gives a description of the development of the Hebrew language translation of this instrument among a sample of 339 undergraduate students in Israel The data support the psychometric properties of the Hebrew version of this instrument.
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