information seeking anxiety can be interpreted as the fear and/or apprehension of searching for information resources during the information seeking process. the current study aims to determine the prevalence and correlates of the information seeking anxiety among a group of graduate students. the target population of the study comprised 11000 postgraduate students enrolled in various graduate ...

this study aims to introduce the information seeking anxiety construct as a phenomenon among postgraduate students. it also presents the information seeking anxiety scale (isas) as a valid and reliable instrument. further, the current study investigates the prevalence of information seeking anxiety among postgraduate students at a research-intensive university in kuala lumpur, malaysia. results...

Information seeking anxiety can be interpreted as the fear and/or apprehension of searching for information resources during the information seeking process. The current study aims to determine the prevalence and correlates of the information seeking anxiety among a group of graduate students. The target population of the study comprised 11000 postgraduate students enrolled in various graduate ...

Anxiety, especially in learning and decision-making, has long been a recognised factor of solitary Information Seeking. Collaborative information seeking, however, reintroduces factors of social anxiety into the search process, which were otherwise left behind in the transition between library (social) and online (individual) services. Library Anxiety Theory, for example, emphasized the social ...

BACKGROUND Information-seeking anxiety is a feeling caused by abundance of information or failure to proper interpret the information that can adversely affect the ability of individuals for seeking information and meeting their information needs. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate information-seeking anxiety, factors causing it, and methods for addressing and reducing this type of anxie...

This study aims to determine the prevalence and correlates of information seeking anxiety among a group of postgraduate students at a research-intensive university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 38-item Information Seeking Anxiety Scale was administered to 375 postgraduate students drawn from a population of 11000 using stratified random sampling method. Results of the study revealed that infor...

Health information on the Internet is available to help people increase their knowledge and take more responsibility for their health. This study explored how people that vary in severity of health anxiety search for online health information. A cross-sectional research design was employed to evaluate the relationship between online health information seeking and health anxiety. This study surv...

This study examined the relationship between health anxiety and searching for health information online, a phenomenon dubbed 'cyberchondria'. The majority of those with 'high' (n=46) and 'low' (n=36) levels of health anxiety reported seeking health information online. However, those with higher levels of health anxiety sought online health information more frequently, spent longer searching, an...