With the joint cooperation of Payam Noor University and the Scientific Association of Iran Public Library Advancement

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associated Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 MSc, Department of Knowledge and Information Science; Public library Expert, Kordestan, Iran.

3 Associated Professor, Department Of Knowledge and Information Science, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to predict the study rate by cultural intelligence, social factors and lifestyle in public library members in Sanandaj city.
Methodology:  The research method was correlational survey. In this research, formal validity was applied. setting up the questionnaires, to review and comment on the questionnaires, they were presented to a few experts then their comments and corrections were made. 381 persons were selected by class-random sampling methods.Questionnaires were used to data gathering. Regression was used for data analysis.
Findings: research finding indicated that the predictive power of cultural intelligence and social factors for prediction of rate of studying was statistically significant, but there was no significance relationship between lifestyle and the rate of studying members in Sanandaj public libraries.Conclusion. The coefficients of variable regression of social factors showed that this variable can explain the variance of the variable of the study rate significantly.
Conclusion: Despite the importance of cultural intelligence topic, no observed and it was identified that cultural intelligence is needed skills to adapt to new situations and it confirms that people with high cultural intelligence has higher ability in studing, reading and problems solving. 

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