The Role of Anxiety and Awareness in Extended UTAUT and UTAUT2 Models: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Keywords:
UTAUT, UTAUT2, anxiety, awareness, technology acceptance, systematic review, meta-analysis, structural equation modeling, extended modelAbstract
The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and its extension, UTAUT2, are seminal frameworks for understanding generation adoption. While regularly extended, the cumulative effect of essential affective (anxiety) and cognitive (awareness) variables has remained unquantified. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesize the findings from 15 terrific, peer-reviewed empirical research posted between 2012 and 2024 that explicitly included tension or cognizance as predictors or moderators inside UTAUT/UTAUT2. Our meta-analytic effects screen that tension exerts a constant, enormous poor effect on behavioral intention (mean β = –zero.245, p <; .01), acting as a strong mental barrier. Conversely, attention indicates a sturdy, massive fantastic effect on behavioral goal (suggest β = 0.307, p < .001), serving as a vital cognitive enabler. The inclusion of those variables substantially improves model explanatory power, with a median R² boom of 8.7%. Furthermore, our evaluation confirms their moderating roles: anxiety continually weakens the tremendous outcomes of social have an impact on and facilitating situations, while recognition strengthens the link between overall performance expectancy and purpose. We conclude that tension and attention are not peripheral accessories however empirically tested, middle extensions which are crucial for a complete know-how of generation adoption, in particular in novel, excessive-stakes, or complex technological ecosystems. This paper furnishes a complete evidence base, gives standardized dimension guidelines, and descriptions a clean schedule for future research to enhance theoretical coherence and practical software.
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