Marjatta Vanhalakka-Ruoho

Work place: University of Eastern Finland/ Dept. of Career counsellor Education, Joensuu, 8101, Finland

E-mail: Marjatta.vanhalakka-Ruoho@uef.fi

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Biography

Prof. Marjatta Vanhalakka-Ruoho received her PhD from University of Tampere in the field of Psychology. She acts as professor in career counsellor Education in the University of Eastern Finland. Career counsellor education carries out the following educational programs: Degree Programme in Career Counseling, Master’s Degree Programme in Career Counseling and Qualification studies for Career Counsellors. Her research work has dealt with family, occupational aspirations, organizational development and career counseling. The present research themes are group counseling, educational transitions and the family and enhancing agency in transitions.

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Using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Model to Predict Students’ Behavioral Intention to Adopt and Use E-Counseling in Ghana

By Emmanuel Awuni Kolog Erkki Sutinen Marjatta Vanhalakka-Ruoho Jarkko Suhonen Ebenezer Anohah

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2015.11.01, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

The urge to progressively motivate e-counseling in schools is somewhat dependent on students’ behavioral intention towards the use of counseling technologies. This paper presents an empirical approach of using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model to ascertain students’ behavioral intention to adopt and use e-counseling in Ghana. Questionnaires were used to collect data from two hundred and fifty (N=250) randomly selected students from Ghana. Cronbach alpha (α) was first employed to validate and ascertain the reliability of the data. Subsequently, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) was performed in analysing the data. After that, a follow-up interview was conducted to explore the variance in our findings from the collected data through the questionnaires. In the end, the reliability of the test items contained in the questionnaire yielded strongly at 87.6 %. Also, whereas the outcome of the research suggests Performance Expectancy (PE) (B = .511 , p= .000) and Social Influence (SI) (B = .165 p = .001) as the influencing constructs (factors) towards students’ behavioral intention to adopt and use e-counseling, Facilitation Condition (FC) (B= .014, p= .723) and Effort Expectancy (EE) (B= .086 p= .080) had no significant effect on the behavioral intention of students to adopt and use e-counseling in Ghana.

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