Previous Experience of University Students and Tasks Performance Connected to Computer: Role of Computer Self - Efficacy, Computer Anxiety and Gender

The aim of this research is analysis of the relation of the previous experience of computer with the performance in computer related-tasks with regard to the role of mediation of self-efficacy and computer anxiety which has been carried out with planning the conceptual model based on path analysis. For doing this، 282 undergraduate students (142 female and 140 male) from the Payame Noor University of Germi and bilesavar were selected through relative class sampling. They completed a questionnaire composed of a computer anxiety scale، a computer self - efficacy scale and a computer experiences questionnaire. Practical computer test scores were used to measure the performance of tasks connected to computer. The results showed that the previous computer experience has a significantly indirect effect on computer performance through the mediating role of computer anxiety and computer self-efficacy. Computer anxiety has a significantly indirect effect on computer performance with the mediation of computer self-efficacy. The suggested model has a good fitness with the research data and could also explain 0. 72 of the computer performance variance.