A model about students’ behavioural intention to use university WeChat Library
ISSN: 2059-5816
Article publication date: 2 March 2022
Issue publication date: 3 October 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to build a model about students’ behavioural intention (BI) to use the university WeChat Library (WL).
Design/methodology/approach
Firstly, after the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model was modified, a modified theory of acceptance and use of technology (MTAUT) model is built; a questionnaire survey, in which 1,003 valid observations are randomly collected from six universities in a city in eastern China, is performed; and then the results of the survey are used to build the model about students’ BI to use the WL based on regression analysis.
Findings
This study finds five factors, which are information quality (IQ), effort expectancy (EE), facilitating conditions (FC), performance expectancy (PE) and social influence (SI), that constitute independent variables of the model about students’ BI to use the university WL. And IQ has the greatest effect on students’ BI to use the WL, followed by EE, FC, PE and SI.
Originality/value
This study builds and tests a MTAUT model about students’ BI to use the university WL.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Lei Xi from Nanjing Medical University, Rihua Si from Nanjing Sport Institute, Weiqun Chen from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Mage Xiao from Hohai University and Lijun Fu from Nanjing Normal University for helpful works.
Citation
Zhang, Q. and Xi, Q. (2022), "A model about students’ behavioural intention to use university WeChat Library", Digital Library Perspectives, Vol. 38 No. 4, pp. 429-443. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-03-2021-0026
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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