Abstract
This article emphasize the importance of considering psychological mechanisms for a thorough understanding of users of information services. The focal point is the relation between personality and information seeking which is explored through a quantitative analysis of 305 university students' personality traits and information habits. It is shown that information behaviour could be connected to all the personality dimensions tested in the study - neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, competitiveness and conscientiousness. Possible explanations for these relations are discussed. It is concluded that inner traits interact with contextual factors in their final impact on information behaviour.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Pages (from-to) | – |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Information Research |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |