The influence of personality traits on information seeking behaviour of students

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-53

  Halder, Santoshi ^a   Roy, Anjali ^a   Chakraborty, P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

Five personality dimensions; Information seeking behavior; Product moment correlation; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955631196     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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