information literacy self-efficacy: conceptual framework and research background

purpose: the present paper aims to relate self-efficacy as an important psychological construct to information literacy as an essential requisite of the information society.methodology: reviewing related literature in communication, sociology, information science and computer science.findings: self-efficacy could increase interest, efforts, enjoy, self-regulation and performance. it is considered to a factor influencing network and social competencies and social and techno phobia as well. information seeking could be highly influenced by the level of self-efficacy. some factors as gender, age, academic attainments, experience, instruction, english language knowledge and task to be correlated to self-efficacy. most of the research about information literacy self efficacy has been explored in turkey.novelty: the construct of self-efficacy which is coined by albert bandura as most famous and cited live psychologist and forth psychologist in the history of psychology has a significant role in information literacy. the current paper is the first review paper exploring the concept of self-efficacy in information literacy and seeking.