Everyday Decision-Making Styles, Outcomes and Personality

Day by day people face decisions in areas as diverse as choosing what to wear, what medical prescriptions and procedures to opt for, to friends, beliefs, and careers perspectives. Extracting relevant information and applying suitable decision-making skills are preventing them from negative decision outcomes. Aiming to expand on a sparse literature area, this study explores the relationship between personality dimensions, introversion and extroversion, decision-making styles and decision quality outcomes. The current study utilized a multi-correlational design. Participants (N=143) completed an online survey of three validated measurements were used: Mini Markers (Saucier, 1996), General Decision Making Style (Scott and Bruce 1995) questionnaire, and Decision-Making Outcomes Inventory (Bruine de Bruin et al. 2007). Taken together, the study may be applicable in terms of clinical interventions as well as various job-related aspects.