Farshad Parhamnia; Fatemeh Nooshinfard
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Background and Objectives: Today, information retrieval has been considered by researchers in various fields as an aspect of information behavior. Research suggests that informational behavior is formed in the social, psychological, and environmental contexts. There seems to be a find a link between ...
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Background and Objectives: Today, information retrieval has been considered by researchers in various fields as an aspect of information behavior. Research suggests that informational behavior is formed in the social, psychological, and environmental contexts. There seems to be a find a link between psychological factors and the field of behavioral information. One of the psychological factors that can make this connection possible is the issue of mindfulness. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to analyze the relationship between mindfulness and the information-seeking behavior of graduate students of Kermanshah universities.Methodology: The present study is applied in terms of purpose and survey-descriptive in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the study included graduate students of Razi University, Medical Sciences and Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Branch. Sample size was obtained by stratified random sampling. The selection of the statistical population was purposeful. Data collection tools were performed using two questionnaires, including a 39-item short version Baer et al (2006) of the mindfulness scale. Furthermore, using the researcher-made questionnaire with 20 questions in the form of six subscales information-seeking behavior was measured. Data analysis was performed using Pearson test and multiple regression using SPSS software version 23.Finding: The Pearson correlation coefficient indicated that there was a significant relationship between the subscale of mindfulness including five subscales of observation, description, and operation with alertness, imprecision, and non-communicability as independent variables with information-seeking behavior. Regression results showed that the subscale of observation, description, and observation, action with alertness, irrationality, and non-communicability could significantly explain the variance of information-seeking behavior.Conclusion: Since information behavior originates in the minds of individuals the findings of the study indicate the effect of mindfulness variables on information behavior. The findings of this research from a theoretical and practical point of view can lead to a clearer explanation of the mindset of information behavior and provide a deeper understanding of psychological processing.
Farshad Parhamnia; Fatemeh Nooshinfard; Nadjla Hariri; Sedegh Mohamad Esmaeil
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Background and Objectives: Since scholarly communication is part of social relations, it has a pivotal role in scientific development. That is why scholarly communication is regarded as important in educational context. Scholarly communication is of a wide scope, thus, it should be studied from different ...
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Background and Objectives: Since scholarly communication is part of social relations, it has a pivotal role in scientific development. That is why scholarly communication is regarded as important in educational context. Scholarly communication is of a wide scope, thus, it should be studied from different perspectives. Various internal and external factors may affect scholarly communication of university instructors. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the role of personal and leadership style on Iranian University Instructors’ scholarly communication.
Methodology: The present research study was a follow-up explanations model, the design enjoyed both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The sample for the qualitative section included university instructors including 29876 instructors. In quantitative section, after considering missing data 378 instructors were selected. A researcher made questionnaire was used to gather data. To validate the scale, some experts were asked to pass their judgment on the questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha coefficient which was used in order to assess the reliability was 0.824. Multiple regression using Spss 21 was used to for the statistical analysis. To gather the data for qualitative section a semi-structured interview was used. In the present study, the qualitative data and quantitative data gathering was sequential; however, the interpretation was concurrent. Accordingly, the content analysis had a deductive approach.
Findings: The findings of multiple regression showed that personality factors, cognitive style, organizational conflict and leadership style could explain scholarly communication. Therefore, personality factors having the highest beta coefficient predicts personal and leadership factors over scholarly communication. The variables of organizational conflict, cognitive style, organizational conflict and leadership style were second to fourth predictors of scholarly communication. The results of qualitative section confirmed the findings of the quantitative parts. The themes and category in scholarly communication included 235 primary codes, 33 categories and 4 themes of all these, the variable of personal factors had 56 primary codes, and 9 category codes, organizational conflict 8 category; the variable of cognitive style having 64 primary codes and 8 categories and finally, the variable of leadership style with 61 leadership style primary codes and 8 categories in scholarly communication.
Discussion: The present study aimed to explore the effect of personal factors and leader style on scholarly communication of university students. The results of qualitative and quantitative section show that to have a successful scholarly communication in in universities various factors should be taken into consideration. The findings also showed that almost all the variables had effect on scholarly communication
Farshad Parhamnia; Fatemeh Nooshinfard
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Purpose: The goal of the present study was to investigate the contextual factors affecting the scholarly communication of the faculty members in Iran’s Universities. Methodology: The study aimed to be an applied analytic survey. The statistical population included the faculty members working in ...
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Purpose: The goal of the present study was to investigate the contextual factors affecting the scholarly communication of the faculty members in Iran’s Universities. Methodology: The study aimed to be an applied analytic survey. The statistical population included the faculty members working in all universities in Iran. The data gathering instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire containing 35 questions. The obtained Alpha Cronbach correlation coefficient was.881 which proved the reliability of the questionnaire. The data were analyzed based on multiple regression analysis using Amos and SPSS 21. Finding: The multiple regression analysis showed that among the contextual factors, the variable of the relationship with government, the academic freedom, the social environment and political and cultural environment can statistically explain the variance of scholarly communication.Conclusion: : It is concluded that there is significant relationship between the scholarly communication with the scientific products. Moreover, the scholarly communication can explain the variance of the scientific production.
