The Relationships between Personal Traits and Information Morals Consciousness

Abstract

This study discusses a relationship between personal traits affecting behavioral determinants and information morals consciousness based on the results obtained from a series of our studies. We created a hypothetical causal model about information morals consciousness and personal traits (self-esteem, abilities of understanding others, self-efficacy, social self-regulation) and, using a structural equation modeling analysis, inspected the validity of our hypothetical model. Subjects were 89 university students. As we expected, the results indicated personal traits influenced the formation of information morals consciousness. The above results suggest that teachers should use the instructional strategy appropriately and selectively by the learners’ personal traits in information education.