التباين في أساليب اتخاذ القرار لدى طلبة الجامعة في ضوء الأسلوب المعرفي (الجمود الذهني الانفتاح الذهني)‎

Abstract EN

The aim of this research is to reveal the divergence in decision-making influenced by the cognitive style (Closed -mindedness' opened-mindedness).

The research is applied to a sample of two hundred students from the Department of Psychology.

College of Social Sciences.

The tools of the research are: 1.

Scale one: decision-making methods - designed by (Scott & Bruce 1995) and included twenty-five items.

Besides that, the scale included the following decision-making methods: rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant, spontaneous.

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Scale two: the scale of (Closed -mindedness 'open-mindedness) -designed by the researcher.

The research contained in its final form twenty-five item The results of the current research showed that all the members showed no difference in the preference of the styles of decision-making (rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant, spontaneous) according to gender (males, females) and cognitive style (closed-mindedness/open-mindedness).

The studying results presented showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the main study groups according to the cognitive method (Closed -mindedness/ opened-mindedness) and gender variable (males/females) in decision-making styles.

This indicates that the closed-minded and opened-minded sample members use the rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant, and spontaneous styles in decision-making to a close extent.

A statistical difference was detected between the two study groups (males and females) in their use of the intuitive method in decision-making in favor of females.

The results also showed that there was no effect of cognitive style (closed-mindedness /opened- mindedness) and gender (male-female) and their interactions on decision-making styles (rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant, spontaneous).