TY - JOUR
T1 - Decision-making styles in a real-life decision
T2 - Choosing a college major
AU - Galotti, Kathleen M.
AU - Ciner, Elizabeth
AU - Altenbaumer, Hope E.
AU - Geerts, Heather J.
AU - Rupp, Allison
AU - Woulfe, Julie
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Kate Jones, Rachel Kirby, Rachael Klein, and Elizabeth Sehr for their assistance. Funding came from the office of the Dean of the College, Carleton College, as well as from the National Science Foundation, DRMS program, RUI grant 0111585.
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - Undergraduate students were surveyed at the beginning stages of a potentially life-framing decision: choosing a college major. We investigated the relationships among individual difference variables (decision-making styles, planning proclivities, and epistemological orientations), cognitive measures of performance (e.g., amount of information gathered and considered); and affective reactions to, and descriptive ratings of, the decision-making process. There were few significant relationships between individual differences and performance measures. However, there were significant relationships found between individual differences measures and affective reactions to, or descriptive ratings of, the decision-making process. We suggest that stylistic measures have their effects in the way individuals frame the decision-making process rather than in the way they go about gathering or structuring information.
AB - Undergraduate students were surveyed at the beginning stages of a potentially life-framing decision: choosing a college major. We investigated the relationships among individual difference variables (decision-making styles, planning proclivities, and epistemological orientations), cognitive measures of performance (e.g., amount of information gathered and considered); and affective reactions to, and descriptive ratings of, the decision-making process. There were few significant relationships between individual differences and performance measures. However, there were significant relationships found between individual differences measures and affective reactions to, or descriptive ratings of, the decision-making process. We suggest that stylistic measures have their effects in the way individuals frame the decision-making process rather than in the way they go about gathering or structuring information.
KW - Affective reactions to decisions
KW - Decision-making
KW - Decision-making styles
KW - Individual differences
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2006.03.003
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2006.03.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745820306
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 41
SP - 629
EP - 639
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 4
ER -