This study aimed to construct the Attitudes Towards Computer Scale, establishing its psychometric parameters. There were two factors as hypothesis: Autonomous Machine and Interacting Instrument At the beginning there were 100 items, reduced to 50 after theoretical and semantical analysis, and discriminatory power. Based on answers of 487 subjects, a PAF analysis was performed, with oblimin rotation, which resulted in two different factors from those formulated: Positive Attitudes and Negative Attitudes, with Cronbach’s Alphas of .77 and .74, respectively. These two factors together explain 16.3% of the variability of the scores. Final/r. the correlation between such factors (r= -.48, p< .000) suggested a unifactorial scale, with the 31 items and Alpha of .83. It was concluded that the instrument can be useful to diagnose the attitudes of the potential computer user and to know how the general population perceive this machine.
Attitude; Anxiety; Computer; Scale
