Assessing Library Anxiety in Undergraduate Students Using the Greek Library Anxiety Scale (G-LAS)

Konstantinos-Anastasios Doris, Paraskevi-Anna Provata and Eftichia Vraimaki ()
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Konstantinos-Anastasios Doris: Technological Educational Institute of Athens (TEI-A)
Paraskevi-Anna Provata: Technological Educational Institute of Athens (TEI-A)
Eftichia Vraimaki: Technological Educational Institute of Athens (TEI-A)

A chapter in Strategic Innovative Marketing, 2017, pp 675-682 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The term “library anxiety,” coined by Mellon (1986), has been described as “an uncomfortable feeling or emotional disposition, experienced in a library setting, which has cognitive, affective, physiological, and behavioral ramifications” (Jiao et al. 1996, p. 152). High library anxiety levels have been associated with low research and academic performance. The current study investigates library anxiety in a sample of 279 undergraduate students of Greek tertiary education institutions. Anxiety levels were assessed using an aggregation of items from previously published scales to form the Greek Library Anxiety Scale (G-LAS). Data analysis shows that the G-LAS has good psychometric properties, with alpha values ranging from 0.931 to 0.703 for barriers with staff and rules barriers, respectively. Overall, students report low levels of total library anxiety (mean 2.4).

Keywords: Library anxiety; Greek library anxiety scale; Undergraduate students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33865-1_82

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