Investigating the Relation between the Attitude to the Job Future and Informative-seeking Behavior among Students of Tarbiat Modares University

Zarqani, Saied Javad and Madahi, Farideh Investigating the Relation between the Attitude to the Job Future and Informative-seeking Behavior among Students of Tarbiat Modares University. Academic Librarianship and Information Research, 2021, vol. 55, n. 3, pp. 1-20. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Methodology: In terms of objective and collecting data (made by systematic approach), this research is placed in sort of applied and descriptive research respectively. in order to collect data, we used a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population is all students of Tarbiat Modares University in both master and doctoral degrees. Sampling was done randomly and the sample size, according to Cochran formula, is 374 persons. Findings: The results obtained by structural model indicated that there is a meaningful relation between the variable defined as attitude towards jobs future and the variable information-seeking behavior of students. The results of Kruskal-Wallis and Uman‌- Whitney tests showed that there was no difference between postgraduate and PhD students in terms of attitude towards jobs future. In addition, there was no difference among students of various groups given the variable towards to job future. while he reaction of students of various groups towards information-seeking behaviors was similar, there exist a significant difference between master and doctoral students in terms of information-seeking behavior Originality: As far as the results of this research is concerned, there is a meaningful relation between the information-seeking behavior and the attitudes of students toward their job future. Improving the attitudes to job future and motivating them, we can expect their information-seeking behavior would be improved. The discrepancy between graduate and doctoral students in terms of information-seeking behaviors indicates that universities, or more accurately, central libraries can play a greater role to enhance information-seeking skills of students as well as their level of information knowledge.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Job Attitude, Information Seeking Behavior, Tarbiat Modares University, Graduate Students
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BI. User interfaces, usability.
Depositing user: Maliheh Dorkhosh
Date deposited: 23 Jan 2023 10:09
Last modified: 23 Jan 2023 10:09
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/43745

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