An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)

Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focu...

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Main Authors: Timo Gnambs, Jan-Philipp Stein, Markus Appel, Florian Griese, Sabine Zinn
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Published: Elsevier 2025-03-01
Series:Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
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description Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focus on specific technologies or cross-domain evaluations, while domain-specific measurement instruments are scarce. Therefore, this study introduces the nine-item Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence in Work, Healthcare, and Education (ATTARI-WHE) scale. Using a diverse sample of N = 1083 respondents from Germany, the psychometric properties of the instrument were evaluated. The results demonstrated low rates of missing responses, minimal response biases, and a robust measurement model that was invariant across sex, age, education, and employment status. These findings support the use of the ATTARI-WHE to assess AI attitudes in the work, healthcare, and education domains, with three items each. Its brevity makes it particularly well-suited for use in social surveys, web-based studies, or longitudinal research where assessment time is limited.
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spelling doaj-art-3bbfea7ecbac41d9adf224ed119ea6b72025-08-20T02:18:00ZengElsevierComputers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans2949-88212025-03-01310010610.1016/j.chbah.2024.100106An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)Timo Gnambs0Jan-Philipp Stein1Markus Appel2Florian Griese3Sabine Zinn4Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Bamberg, Germany; Corresponding author. Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 96047, Bamberg, Germany.Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, GermanyUniversity of Würzburg, Würzburg, GermanyGerman Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, GermanyGerman Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany; Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, GermanyArtificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focus on specific technologies or cross-domain evaluations, while domain-specific measurement instruments are scarce. Therefore, this study introduces the nine-item Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence in Work, Healthcare, and Education (ATTARI-WHE) scale. Using a diverse sample of N = 1083 respondents from Germany, the psychometric properties of the instrument were evaluated. The results demonstrated low rates of missing responses, minimal response biases, and a robust measurement model that was invariant across sex, age, education, and employment status. These findings support the use of the ATTARI-WHE to assess AI attitudes in the work, healthcare, and education domains, with three items each. Its brevity makes it particularly well-suited for use in social surveys, web-based studies, or longitudinal research where assessment time is limited.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949882124000665Artificial intelligenceAttitudesWorkHealthcareEducationSocial survey
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An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)
Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
Artificial intelligence
Attitudes
Work
Healthcare
Education
Social survey
title An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)
title_full An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)
title_fullStr An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)
title_full_unstemmed An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)
title_short An economical measure of attitudes towards artificial intelligence in work, healthcare, and education (ATTARI-WHE)
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topic Artificial intelligence
Attitudes
Work
Healthcare
Education
Social survey
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949882124000665
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