Information search performance and research achievement: An empirical test of the Anxiety-Expectation Mediation model of library anxiety

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-54

  Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J ^a   Jiao, Qun G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LIBRARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STUDENTS;

ANXIETY EXPECTATION MEDIATION MODEL; LIBRARY ANXIETY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING TECHNIQUES;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0347024460     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10342     Document Type: Article

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