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.
Highlights
The purpose of academic libraries is to support teaching and learning in colleges and universities
The results showed that library-anxiety of students in all subscales are in the middle to low level, and components of library anxiety, barriers with staff, affective barriers and knowledge of the library are in the mechanical and affective barriers which are in lower-middle upper-middle-class, that shows the main library anxiety of medical sciences students of Ardabil are related to emotional and mechanical barriers
It seems that the mechanical barriers are recognized as problematic factors in the increasing of library anxiety in international students
Summary
The purpose of academic libraries is to support teaching and learning in colleges and universities. Academic libraries can serve as an extension of the classrooms by providing resources and services that enable students to achieve academic excellence. Some students experience what the library literature describes as “library anxiety”. Mellon described it as: “an uncomfortable feeling or emotional disposition that is. How to cite this paper: Biglu, M.-H., Ghavami, M. and Dadashpour, S. (2016) Big Five Personality Factors and Library Anxiety. Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, 6, 377-385.
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