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Abstract
ABSTRACT This study investigated psychological factors, digital literacy skills and use of electronic information resources by postgraduate students in the faculty of education, Delta State University, Abraka. Three research questions and two research hypotheses were raised, answered and tested. The study employed the descriptive survey design and the sample for this study consist of 45 postgraduate students. The purposive sampling technique was employed for this study. The instrument for the collection of data was the questionnaire. The questionnaire was titled “Psychological Factors and Digital Literacy Skills influencing the Use of Electronic Information Resources by Postgraduate Students Questionnaire (PFDLSIUERPSQ)”. The face and content validity was established by the supervisor and two other experts. To determine the reliability of the instrument, the Cronbach's Alpha reliability statistics was used, and this produced a reliability index of 0.79. Data collected were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, percentage, and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient r. The level of significance at 0.05. The findings of the study revealed that: Postgraduate students makes use of all electronic information resources with majority of them using a combination of different electronic information resources, all psychological factors influences the use of electronic information resource, postgraduate students possess the digital literacy skills, also the finding shows that there is a significant relationship among self efficacy, motivation and anxiety on usage of electronic information resource, while there is no significant relationship between stress and usage of electronic information resources, and lastly, no significant relationship was found between postgraduate students digital literacy skills and their usage of electronic information resource. It was therefore recommended that government should formulate policies that will support free access to Internet services in schools so that all students can get access to the Internet and enhance their digital literacy skills through frequent usage of electronic information skills.