Study of the relationship between information literacy and entrepreneurship with the mediating role of social skills of the art students of technical art schools

Subject Areas : Educational management

yaser  mohammadinejad ¹ (shahid bahonar university)
hedayat  tirgar ² (faculty member of shahid bahonar university of kerman)

Received: 2022-12-03 Accepted : 2023-04-16 Published : 2023-06-22

Keywords: "information literacy", "entrepreneurship capabilities", "and social skills",

Abstract :

This study aims to investigate the relationship between information literacy and entrepreneurship capabilities with the mediating role of social skills of art students of technical art schools. The present study's research method is of correlational type and in respect of objective is among applied studies. The statistical population in this study includes the art students of the art schools of Kerman city education department, district 2 which are 2283 male and 1736 female students. The sampling method is a stratified random method. The sample content of the present study is 152 female and 199 male students. For data collection, the information literacy questionnaire of Rahmani et.al (2007), the social skills questionnaire of Inderbitzen and Foster (1992), and the entrepreneurship capabilities questionnaire of Mirza Safi (2009) were used. SPSS software version 24 and Amos were used for data analysis and a significance level of 0.05 was considered. Data analysis showed that There is a relation between the information literacy and entrepreneurship capabilities of art students of technical art schools. There is a relationship between information literacy and the social skills of art students in technical art schools. There is a relation between the entrepreneurship capabilities and social skills

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