Table 4.
A summary of decisions regarding the hypotheses and relevant literature examined in this study
| Hypotheses | Decision | Literature | Research questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1: Income is positively correlated with attitude toward automated management | Accept | Ali (2012), Urueña et al. (2018) and McClure (2017) | RQ3 |
| H2: Being male is positively correlated with attitude toward automated management, while the opposite is true for female | Accept | Brewer et al. (2020), McClure (2017), Cai et al. (2017) and Huffman et al. (2013) | RQ3 |
| H3: Business major is positively correlated with attitude toward automated management, while the opposite is true for Social Studies major | Accept | Clayton and Clopton (2019), Prentice et al. (2020), Gherheș and Obrad (2018), Chen and Lee (2019) | RQ3 |
| H4: Number of years in higher education is positively correlated with attitude toward automated management | Accept | Thurman et al. (2019), Damerji and Salimi (2021) and Araujo et al. 2020) | RQ3 |
| H5: Self-rated familiarity with AI is negatively correlated with attitude toward automated management | Reject | Brougham and Haar (2017) and; Bin Dahmash et al. 2020) | RQ5 |
| H6: Religiosity is negatively correlated with attitude toward automated management | Accept | Brewer et al. (2020), Northeastern University and Gallup (2018) and West (2018) | RQ3 |
| H7: There are regional differences in the attitude toward automated management | Accept | Alsaleh et al. (2019), Muñoz-Leiva et al. (2018) and Henrich (2020) | RQ3 |
| H8: Income is positively correlated with self-rated familiarity with AI | Reject | Ali (2012), Urueña et al. (2018) and McClure (2017) | RQ4 |
| H9: Being male is positively correlated with self-rated familiarity with AI, while the opposite is true for female | Accept | Ali (2012), Urueña et al. (2018) and McClure (2017) | RQ4 |
| H10: Business major is positively correlated with self-rated familiarity with AI, while the opposite is true for Social Studies major | Accept | Clayton and Clopton (2019) | RQ4 |
| H11: Number of years in higher education is positively correlated with self-rated familiarity with AI | Reject | Thurman et al. (2019), Damerji and Salimi (2021) and Araujo et al. (2020) | RQ4 |
| H12: Religiosity does not affect self-rated familiarity with AI | Accept | Very little evidence in the literature | RQ4 |
| H13: Regions do not affect self-rated familiarity with AI | Accept | Very little evidence in the literature | RQ4 |