Volume Two - Academic Conferences

Maruff Akinwale Oladejo and Adelua Olajide Olawole
Self-concept has also been identified as a predictor of e-publishing(Oladejo, 2010). It is the
accumulation of knowledge about the self, such as beliefs regarding personality traits, physical
characteristics, abilities, values, goals, and roles (Oladejo, 2010). Thus, Rosen (Fayombo, 2001)
described academic self-concept as self confidence which is the anticipation of successfully mastering
challenges, obstacles or tasks in academic works. It is therefore very important that attempt be made
at examining how these motivational variables predict College academics’ choice of electronic
publishing in Nigeria.
1.3 Statement of the problem
Understanding what motivate academics to use the internet as a publishing channel is a vital issue for
consideration, if Nigerian academics want to remain relevant and keep abreast of current information
and benefit from the global digital information revolution. The problem of this study therefore, is to
examine the predictive power of some academics’ motivational variables namely attitudes towards
technology, computer self-efficacy and academics self-concept on electronic publishing in Nigerian
Colleges of Education. To this end, six hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of
significance.
There is no significant relationship between attitudes towards technology and electronic
publishing by the Nigerian College Academics.
There is no significant relationship between computer self-efficacy and electronic publishing by
the Nigerian College Academics.
There is no significant relationship between academic self-concept and electronic publishing by
the Nigerian College Academics.
Electronic publishing by the Nigerian College Academics is not significantly different based on
age.
There is no significant gender difference in electronic publishing by the Nigerian College
Academics.
Electronic publishing by the Nigerian College Academics is not significantly different on the basis
of rank.
2. Methodology
2.1 Design
The study adopted the descriptive survey design where the variables are examined “ex-post facto”.
An “ex-post facto “study is described as:
A systematic empirical inquiry in which the scientist does
not have direct control of independent variables because their
manifestations have already occurred or because they are inherently
not manipulable. Inferences about relations among variables are made
without direct interaction from concomitant variation of independent and
dependent variable, Kerlinger (in Oladejo, 2010: 264).
2.2 Sample and sampling techniques
Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select both the Colleges and the subjects. The three
Colleges of Education in Oyo State, Nigeria were therefore used for the study. This is made up of one
Federal, State and Privately-owned . Also, a total number of 350 participants , who had spent at least
five years in the service participated in the study. Three validated self-designed instruments titled
College Academics’ Attitude to Electronic Publishing Questionnaire (CAAEPQ), College Academics’
Computer Self-Efficacy Scale (CASEC) and College Academics’ Self-Concept Scale (CASCS) whose
reliability coefficients were 0.68, 0.75 and 0.78 respectively were used for data collection. These were
administered to all cadres of academic staff in the selected Colleges of Education.
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