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From couch to screen : A cross-sectional survey study into psychology students’ openness to use technology in their future.
Akremi, E.A. (2024) From couch to screen : A cross-sectional survey study into psychology students’ openness to use technology in their future.
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| Abstract: | The integration of e-health has brought up alarm amongst psychologists, raising doubts about how this is going to affect the therapeutic relationship between psychologist and client. Moreover, psychology students are crucial stakeholders as they are the future psychologists who will deal with e-health in their workplace. Therefore, this study explores the relationship between technology openness and perceived threat to psychologist-client relationship among psychology students in the future career. Additionally, since literature brings forth evidence on self-efficacy being important towards technology openness, it is necessary to investigate it as a moderator variable. A quantitative online study was performed with a total of 70 psychology students. They filled out three questionnaires, which measured their technology openness, perceived threat to psychologist-client relationship, and self-efficacy. The main analyses were multiple regression analysis and moderation analysis. The analyses showed insignificant relationships between technology openness and perceived threat to psychologist-client relationship (p = .29) and self-efficacy on the aforementioned relationship (p = .615). However, a significant relationship existed between self-efficacy and technology openness (p < .001). Previous research suggests that confounding variables such as technology proficiency could play a role here. It showed a few limitations such as a small sample size, which is why future research should focus on a bigger sample size as well as degrouping the different levels of self-efficacy to see for a potential effect on the relationship. Keywords: E-health acceptance, technology acceptance, therapeutic relationship, self-efficacy, psychologists, psychology students |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/100711 |
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