TITLE:
Big Five Personality Factors and Library Anxiety
AUTHORS:
Mohammad-Hossein Biglu, Mostafa Ghavami, Sahar Dadashpour
KEYWORDS:
Library Anxiety, Big Five Personality Factors, Students
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science,
Vol.6 No.9,
August
19,
2016
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.