From Fear to Flow
Personality and Information Interaction
Published on 30. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-84334-513-8 (ISBN)
Description
From Fear to Flow explores how personality traits may influence attitude, behaviour and reaction to information. Consideration is made for individual differences in information behaviour and reasons behind individual search differences. The book reviews personality and information behaviour and discusses how personality may influence the attitude towards information. Reaction to information is examined in contexts such as everyday life, decision-making, work, studies and human-computer interaction.
Reviews / Votes
"...can be used to develop individual information-seeking skills as information professional, as a self-reflective tool to examine one's characteristics and how these influence the way one interacts with information." --Australian Library Journal"...the first significant monographic work to link personality types and information behaviour and I'm sure it will shortly be everyone's reading list." --Information Research
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Witney
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84334-513-8 (9781843345138)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
07/2010
Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
€61.95
Available for download
Person
Dr. Jannica Heinstrom has a masters degree in Psychology and a PhD in Information Studies from Abo Akademi University, Finland. She is currently a full time researcher at the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries, Rutgers University, USA. She has extensive research experience in the field of psychological mechanisms of information behaviour, with an emphasis on personality differences. Her work has won numerous prices, including the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, Outstanding Paper Award, 2005.
Content
Personality; Openness to experience - the exploration dimension; Conscientiousness - the persistence dimension; Extroversion - the social dimension; Agreeableness - the trust dimension; Negative affectivity - the emotional dimension; Need for cognition; Positive emotionality; Self-efficacy and self-confidence; Locus of control; Monitoring and blunting; Uncertainty orientation; Broad scanning, fast surfing and deep diving; Discussion.