Information anxiety: Research among students about impact of different media on them

Students are confronted with a great amount of information to handle and filter and that´s why they must be information literate to cope with the problem of information overload. Information overload could cause stress and confusion and even anxiety in human behavior. Anxiety is known from psychological literature as disorder in human´s behavior that manifests through phobia. In relation with that people with information anxiety often feel that they could not filter all relevant information and that during information retrieval they would not be able to evaluate information which creates anxiety. People with information anxiety live in constant fear that information that come to them could be dangerous and that they must protect themselves. Besides information anxiety there are different kinds of anxiety that are in connection with that for example computer anxiety, Internet anxiety, social anxiety, technological anxiety etc. For the purpose of exploring information anxiety among students of Faculty of philosophy in Osijek the survey was conducted. Although students are exposed to different media and they feel information overload as a problem, students still cope well with it and according to research results information overload does not cause information anxiety among students´ population.