DETERMINANTS OF STUDENT’S INTENTION TO USE MOBILE LEARNING IN YEMENI PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES: EXTENDING THE TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM) WITH ANXIETY

Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine the direct effect of the anxiety on the intention to use mobile learning among university students in Yemen. It deploys Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as underpinning and use the anxiety as the external variable, where Tam consider one of the best model can anticipate the intent to use technology. This study used the questionnaire as the main and the only tool to collect the data. Where the questionnaires were distributed among the degree students in three public universities namely Sana’a, Aden, and Dhamar.  The Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using Partial least squares (PLS) software. The results indicated that anxiety directly affects negatively both perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness effect positively the intention to use mobile learning.