Personality traits, gender, and information competency among college students

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-107

  Kwon, Nahyun ^a   Song, Hana ^b  

^a Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

College Students; Information Competence; Information Literacy; Information Seeking; Personality Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955124673     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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