Thinking Styles as a Correlate of Rational Decision-Making Among University Students

Abstract

The present study evaluates the legislative, executive and judicial thinking styles as correlates of rational decision-making among university students in Delhi-NCR. 200 Graduate & Post-Graduate university students in the age range 20 to 25 years from various academic discipline were selected using purposive sampling method. Thinking Styles Inventory–Revised II (TSI-RII; 2007) was used to measure legislative, executive and judicial thinking styles based on the Mental Self-Government framework and rational decision-making style was measured using the Decision-Making Style Scale (1995). In order to assess the relationship between the three sub-domains of thinking styles and rational decision-making Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Stepwise Regression were employed. The findings revealed a significant positive correlation between legislative, executive and judicial thinking styles with rational decision-making. The results further indicated that the most significant predictors of rational decision-making were legislative and executive thinking styles.