Effect of Mental State on the Rate of Identifying the Relevancy of Documents Retrieved in a Search
The present study investigates the link between various users’ mental state while searching information systems with the outcome of the resulting documents retrieved. Various factors such as user knowledge, search skills, motivation and aims influence the decisions and evaluation of users regarding...
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Iranian Research Institute for Information and Technology
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| description | The present study investigates the link between various users’ mental state while searching information systems with the outcome of the resulting documents retrieved. Various factors such as user knowledge, search skills, motivation and aims influence the decisions and evaluation of users regarding documents retrieved. MMPI instrument was used to identify users’ mental states. The sample was drawn from female senior students of librarianship, using systematic random sampling. The findings indicated that anxiety and depression have significant inverse relationship to the rate of relevancy identification of the documents retrieved by the users. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c26cca36a12c47c2b42f66ccd548b2472022-12-22T00:32:54ZfasIranian Research Institute for Information and TechnologyIranian Journal of Information Processing & Management2251-82232251-82312009-07-012445367Effect of Mental State on the Rate of Identifying the Relevancy of Documents Retrieved in a SearchFaezeh Farhoudi0 The present study investigates the link between various users’ mental state while searching information systems with the outcome of the resulting documents retrieved. Various factors such as user knowledge, search skills, motivation and aims influence the decisions and evaluation of users regarding documents retrieved. MMPI instrument was used to identify users’ mental states. The sample was drawn from female senior students of librarianship, using systematic random sampling. The findings indicated that anxiety and depression have significant inverse relationship to the rate of relevancy identification of the documents retrieved by the users.http://jipm.irandoc.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-104&slc_lang=en&sid=1Mental State Information Retrieval Relevancy Users |
| spellingShingle | Faezeh Farhoudi Effect of Mental State on the Rate of Identifying the Relevancy of Documents Retrieved in a Search Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management Mental State Information Retrieval Relevancy Users |
| title | Effect of Mental State on the Rate of Identifying the Relevancy of Documents Retrieved in a Search |
| title_full | Effect of Mental State on the Rate of Identifying the Relevancy of Documents Retrieved in a Search |
| title_fullStr | Effect of Mental State on the Rate of Identifying the Relevancy of Documents Retrieved in a Search |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of Mental State on the Rate of Identifying the Relevancy of Documents Retrieved in a Search |
| title_short | Effect of Mental State on the Rate of Identifying the Relevancy of Documents Retrieved in a Search |
| title_sort | effect of mental state on the rate of identifying the relevancy of documents retrieved in a search |
| topic | Mental State Information Retrieval Relevancy Users |
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