Relationship between informational literacy and time management with research anxiety in reseacher teachers

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the relationship among time management and information literacy and anxiety of research in researcher teachers of Ardabil Town. This descriptive study is of correlational kind. It population includes 344 persons of Ardabil City in academic year 93-94 which among them 181 persons were selected as sample by the stratified random sampling method and according to Kerejsi and Morgan table. To collect data, questionnaire of time management Hashemizade et al. (1385), questionnaire of information literacy of Duel (1994) and questionnaire of anxiety of research of Higins and Kutrlic (2006) were used. Validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by professors and experts. Also, in the present research, using Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient, reliability amount was obtained for time management questionnaire (0.83), information literacy questionnaire (0.89) and anxiety of research questionnaire (0.35). to analyze data, one sample t-test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regressions were used. Obtained results indicate that amount of time management and information literacy of researcher teachers meaningfully are higher than medium level and amount of their anxiety of research meaningfully is lower than medium and there are meaningfully negative relationship among time management, information literacy, their dimensions and anxiety of research of researcher teachers. Results of analyzing multiple regressions indicate that seven dimensions of informational literacy, there is a meaningful and predictor among information literacy, interpretation, combination, using information and anxiety of research of researcher teachers.

Keywords

• time management
• information literacy
• anxiety of research
• researcher teachers