Relationship between Information Literacy with Emotional Intelligence students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: The main mission of higher education is training lifelong learning. Information literacy is the key to lifelong learning. Expend and use of Emotional Intelligence skills can prove important ability that affects many issues. This study was designed with aim to clarify the relationship between Information literacy with Emotional Intelligence in students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Methods: This research is descriptive with correlation' approach on 420 students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences, which was conducted with a stratified random sampling in 2013.The data collection with questionnaire of Information literacy and Emotional Intelligence, Reliability and validity of the questionnaire was confirmed, Cronbach's alpha coefficient Obtained for questionnaire IL (0/78), EI (0/83). Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage and mean), Analytical statistics (Kendall's tau b and Spearman’ Correlation test) in SPSS version 18 statistical Software. P-value of less 0/05 was considered significant. Results: The results showed there was a significant relationship between information literacy and emotional intelligence (r = 0/109, p = 0/028). there was a significant relationship between the quiddity and extent of the field of information literacy with emotional intelligence (r=0/137, p=0/005), However, There is no data related between regarding the effective use of information, critically evaluating information, using the information to specific topics, social sciences related with information with Emotional Intelligence. Conclusions: In this study, students' information literacy is related with emotional intelligence. Communication is a very important role in getting information. According to importance of information literacy and role of communication to promoting it therefore it should be done better planning to improve information literacy and emotional intelligence.