Explaning relation Between Information Literacy and Psychological Security In Students

The purpose of this research was determining the relationship between the information literacy and psychological security of BA students at Ferdowsi Mashhad University in the cyberspace. The current research is correlational in terms of procedure; the information is obtained by means of two information literacy and psychological security questionnaires and the data is collected by field technique. In order to confirm the validity of the research tools, we asked some of knowledge and information science professionals and some psychology specials and to analyze the reliability of the test, we used Cronbach’s alpha. In the information literacy section, the Cronbach’s alpha was 0.78 and for the psychological security section, the Cronbach’s alpha was 0.83, suggesting that the tools are reliable. The statistical population involves all of the 11245 BA students who at the moment studied at Ferdowsi Mashhad University. With regard to the statistical population features, random stratified sampling was used for this purpose and 371 individuals were selected for the current research. Findings: The findings showed that the level of information literacy was not satisfactory in BA students but the psychological security is at a high level. Also there is a significant relationship between these two variables. It turned out that there is a difference between the level of information literacy and psychological security in BA students at Ferdowsi Mashhad University in terms of gender and different academic fields. By increasing the level of information literacy, so many challenges can be reduced in the virtual networks.