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Development and Validation of the Attitudes towards Social Robots Scale.
- Source :
- Healthcare (2227-9032); Feb2024, Vol. 12 Issue 3, p286, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The idea of artificially created social robots has a long tradition. Today, attitudes towards robots play a central role in the field of healthcare. Our research aimed to develop a scale to measure attitudes towards robots. The survey consisted of nine questions on attitudes towards robots, sociodemographic questions, the SWOP-K9, measuring self-efficacy, optimism, and pessimism, and the BFI-10, measuring personality dimensions. Structural relations between the items were detected using principal components analysis (PCA) with Varimax rotation. Correlations and Analysis of Variance were used for external validation. In total, 214 participants (56.1% female, mean age: 30.8 ± 14.4 years) completed the survey. The PCA found two main components, "Robot as a helper and assistant" (RoHeA) and "Robot as an equal partner" (RoEqP), with four items each explaining 53.2% and 17.5% of the variance with a Cronbach's α of 0.915 and 0.768. In the personality traits, "Conscientiousness" correlated weakly with both subscales and "Extraversion" correlated with RoHeA, while none the subscales of the SWOP-K9 significantly correlated with RoEqP or RoHeA. Male participants scored significantly higher than female participants. Our survey yielded a stable and convergent two-factor instrument that exhibited convincing validity and complements other findings in the field. The ASRS can easily be used to describe attitudes towards social robots in human society. Further research, however, should be carried out to investigate the discriminant and convergent validity of the ASRS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EXPERIMENTAL design
KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
ANALYSIS of variance
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH methodology
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
PESSIMISM
ROBOTICS
SELF-efficacy
CRONBACH'S alpha
PSYCHOMETRICS
PEARSON correlation (Statistics)
COMPARATIVE studies
SEX distribution
QUESTIONNAIRES
CONSCIENCE
FACTOR analysis
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHI-squared test
SOCIAL attitudes
DATA analysis software
SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors
OPTIMISM
PERSONALITY assessment
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22279032
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Healthcare (2227-9032)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175371658
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12030286