A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Relationship between Critical Thinking and Library Anxiety among Undergraduate Students in their Information Search Process
By Nahyun Kwon. 2008
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This study investigated the nature of associations between critical thinking dispositions and library anxiety among 137 undergraduate students. The study was conducted by administering standardized survey instruments and by analyzing the contents of student essays on critical incidents of their library use experience. The results of these quantitative and qualitative investigations consolidated each other by revealing negative associations between the two variables. An interactive model of critical thinking and library anxiety emerged from the investigation, showing how they interact with each other during the library use process. Both theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed within the frameworks of affective information behavior and information literacy, respectively.
Subfields: Education, Library and Information Sciences
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Citations in the corpus
- The dark side of information: overload, anxiety and other paradoxes and pathologies (2009, background): “In particular, critical thinking has been noted as a kind of antidote to library anxiety [28–30].”