Fast surfers, broad scanners and deep divers as users of information technology – Relating information preferences to personality traits
✍ Scribed by Jannica Heinström
- Book ID
- 102948088
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 766 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This paper will discuss the influence of personality traits and approaches to studying on students' information‐seeking behavior, with a specific focus on their use of information technology. The results were obtained in a study of 305 university students who completed the NEO Five‐Factor Inventory measuring personality, the ASSIST test measuring approaches to studying and a questionnaire regarding information seeking behavior. Three information‐seeking patterns emerged from the analyses; Fast surfers, Broad scanners and Deep divers. These patterns could be related to different personality traits and study approaches. The influence of personality and study approaches on information‐seeking behavior points to the importance of customizing information services to meet individual needs.