The acceptance and use of WhatsApp mobile instant messaging for learning support / Alias Deraman

This study is based on the previous work that had done by So, S. (2016) at Hong Kong. The research’s objective including test the performance of WhatsApp acceptance, determine of the predictor of change, and establish and testing the model of acceptance and use. The performance was measure by given the academic pre-test and post-test both to the experiment and control group of students. The marginal means on the post-test scores showed that the participants in the experimental group performed better than those in the control group. The determination of main predictor of change was identify by performing the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which classified 4 main component including PU, PEOU and EE as Independent Variable (IV) and acceptance of WhatsApp for learning support (ACCEPTANCE) as dependent variable (DV). The Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) analysis had used to do the hypothesis testing, which prove the model is accepted and useful.