title: The Development and Validation of the Rational and Intuitive Decision Styles Scale.
abstract: Decision styles reflect the typical manner by which individuals make decisions. The purpose of this research was to develop and validate a decision style scale that addresses conceptual and psychometric problems with current measures. The resulting 10-item scale captures a broad range of the rational and intuitive styles construct domain. Results from 5 independent samples provide initial support for the dimensionality and reliability of the new scale, as demonstrated by a clear factor structure and high internal consistency. In addition, our results show evidence of convergent and discriminant validity through expected patterns of correlations across decision-making individual differences and the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) Big Five traits. Research domains that would benefit from incorporating the concept of decision styles are discussed.
authors.affiliation: a College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hamilton
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Shin-I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychology , Pennsylvania State University.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohammed
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D019545:Intuition / Q000502:physiology*; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results