Analysis of psychological characteristics of librarians of the Central Libraries of Tehran’s State Universities

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

Behnaz Jalalie ¹ , Mitra Ghiasi ² , safiyeh tahmasebi limooni ³

1 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Knowledge and Information Science,Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
3 - Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran

Received: 2021-06-04 Accepted : 2021-09-06 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Personality traits, Tehran, Central library, librarian, psychological characteristics, Librarianship, the academic library,

Abstract :

AbstractObjective: The purpose of this study is to identify the psychological characteristics of employees and librarians of central libraries of Tehran’s state Universities.Methodology: The present research method is descriptive _ correlation and the statistical population of the research is the manpower of central libraries of public libraries in Tehran. To study the research community, a Neo questionnaire was used. In this study, Cronbach’s alpha test was used to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. Cronbach’s alpha is 0.897. It indicates that the questionnaire has the desired validity. Also the validity and validity of the  Neo personality questionnaire was implemented by Costa and McConnell (1987)on 208 American students within three months, whose validity coefficients were obtained between 0/83 to 0/ 75, which showed long - term validity of the questionnaire.Results: The cross - sectional score of the librarians is between 12 and 24 indicating that they have lasting emotions, scores of four additional features between 24 and 48, indicating that the librarians are flexible, sometimes an introvert, sometimes an extrovert, they care about others and their responsibilities. there was also no significant relationship between demographic variables and psychological characteristics.Conclusion: The librarians are emotionally stable, relaxed and easy to face with complex situations, they are social people and they have close relationships with others, but sometimes they are rather conservative, but sometimes they may be mindful of their interests, but they may sometimes be mindful of their interests.