Big Five Personality Factors and Library Anxiety
- 1 Basic Science Department, Paramedical Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- 2 Radiology Department, Paramedical Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- 3 Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
Library anxiety is an unpleasant feeling that is experienced in a library location; it has behavioral, psychological, emotional and cognitive effect, which can be harmful for students’ academic career. The purpose of current study was to investigate the relationship between Library anxiety and the Big Five personality factors (neuroticism, extraversion, openness-to-experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) using a multivariate approach among students in Ardabil university. The participants were students of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences of which a sample of 580 students was randomly selected. And the assessment methods were revised. The short form of NEO Inventory [1] and the library anxiety questionnaire [2] were used to gather the data. The results showed that Neuroticism increased library anxiety in students, and with increasing the level of education, library anxiety is reduced, whereas by increasing the semester the library anxiety of students increases.
- Costa, P.T.J. and McCrae, R.R. (1992) Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) Professional Manual. Psychological Assessment Resources, Odessa, FL.
- Bostick, S.L. (1992) The Development and Validation of the Library Anxiety Scale: UMI.
- Mellon, C.A. (1986) Library Anxiety: A Grounded Theory and Its Development. College & Research Libraries, 47, 160-165. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl_47_02_160
- Onwuegbuzie, A.J., Jiao, Q.G. and Bostick, S.L. (2004) Library Anxiety: Theory, Research, and Applications. Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, and Oxford:
- Swigoń, M. (2006) Bariery informacyjne: Podstawy teoretyczne i próba badań w srodowisku naukowym. [Information Barriers: Theory and an Attempt to Study in the Scientific Community]. Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, Warsaw.
- Swigoń, M. (2010) Information Barriers in Libraries—Types, Typologies and Polishempirical Studies. Paper Presented at the 2nd International Conference Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Chania, Crete.
- Cleveland, A. (2004) Library Anxiety: A Decade of Empirical Research. Library Review, 53, 177-185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242530410526583
- Patrick, D.F. (2004) Student Anxiety in library Use (Letter to the Editor). ACTEA Librarians Enews.
- Jiao, Q.G., and Onwuegbuzie, A.J. (1998) Perfectionism and Library Anxiety among Graduate Students. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 24, 365-371. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0099-1333(98)90073-8
- Goldberg, L.R., Johnson, J.A., Eber, H.W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M.C., Cloninger, C.R. and Gough, H.G. (2006) The International Personality Item Pool and the Future of Public-Domain Personality Measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40, 84-96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.007
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T. and Furnham, A. (2003) Personality Traits and Academic Examination Performance. European Journal of Personality, 17, 237-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.473
- Chamorro-Premuzic, T. and Furnham, A. (2003) Personality Predicts Academic Performance: Evidence from Two Longitudinal University Samples. Journal of Research in Personality, 37, 319-338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0092-6566(02)00578-0
- Komarraju, M., Karau, S.J. and Schmeck, R.R. (2009) Role of the Big Five Personality Traits in Predicting College Students’ Academic Motivation and Achievement. Learning and Individual Differences, 19, 47-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2008.07.001