Acceptance of mobile phone by university students for their studies: an investigation applying UTAUT2 model
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Acceptance of mobile phone by university students for their studies: an investigation applying UTAUT2 model Kleopatra Nikolopoulou 1
& Vasilis
Gialamas 1 & Konstantinos Lavidas 2
Received: 18 February 2020 / Accepted: 12 March 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Mobile phone is increasingly widespread among University students, while different factors can affect students’ behavior towards the use and acceptance of mobile technology. One of the methods to measure these factors is the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Behavioral Intention of University students for acceptance and use of mobile phone in their studies. The study employed the extended UTAUT2 model (Venkatesh et al. 2012) which was adapted to the Greek context. The participants were 540 students of different Universities across Greece, who completed an online questionnaire. The most important predictors for students’ Behavioral Intention to use mobile phones in their studies were Habit (the strongest one), Performance Expectancy and Hedonic Motivation. The most important predictor for actual mobile phone use was Behavioral Intention. Gender, age and experience did not have any moderating effect. The findings of this study enhance the evidence on mobile phone acceptance among University students, and have implications for students’ training. Keywords Mobile phone acceptance and use . Mobile learning . UTAUT2 . University
students . Greece
* Kleopatra Nikolopoulou [email protected]; [email protected] Vasilis Gialamas [email protected] Konstantinos Lavidas [email protected]
1
Department of Early Childhood Education, School of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Navarinou 13A, 10680 Athens, Greece
2
Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras, Patra, Greece
Education and Information Technologies
1 Introduction Mobile/Smart phones are increasingly widespread among University students, while their usage as supportive-learning tools in their studies has the potential to contribute to delivering education among students worldwide. For example, University students used their smartphones to access teaching materials or supporting information via the internet, to manage group assignments and to also interact with tutors (Anshari et al. 2017). The use of mobile devices for educational purposes (known as mobile learning) can support and enhance the learning process, anytime and anywhere, and mobile learning is an emerging educational technology aspect in different education levels (Nikolopoulou 2020). University/College students constitute the largest demographic of mobile device users, while mobile phones were reported as the most frequently used mobile device (Crompton and Burke 2018; Lavidas et al. 2019). It is expected that students’ perceptions and actual use of mobile technologies in their education will influence the direction of further developments o
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