Decision-making styles in a real-life decision: Choosing a college major

Decision-making styles in a real-life decision: Choosing a college major

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...

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Published in:Personality and individual differences Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 629 - 639
Main Authors: Galotti, Kathleen M., Ciner, Elizabeth, Altenbaumer, Hope E., Geerts, Heather J., Rupp, Allison, Woulfe, Julie
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01-09-2006
Elsevier
Subjects:
Affective reactions to decisions
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition. Intelligence
Decision making
Decision making. Choice
Decision-making styles
Educational programmes
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Individual differences
Information gathering
Process evaluation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Undergraduate students
Decision-making
Decision-making styles
Individual differences
Affective reactions to decisions
Human
Affect affectivity
Decision making
Interindividual comparison
Cognition
Cognitive style
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2006.03.003