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The effects of achievement and gender on decision-making skill
dc.contributor.advisor | Borman, Christopher | |
dc.creator | Osborn, Stephen Mark | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T22:24:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-21T22:24:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1980 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-658778 | |
dc.description | Typescript (photocopy). | en |
dc.description.abstract | This study used college students to examine the effects of achievement and gender upon decision-making skill during an ego-involved and a non-ego-involved task while controlling for intelligence, locus of control, and state-trait anxiety. A secondary goal was to determine the usefulness of an objective measure of decision-making, a balance sheet procedure adapted from Janis & Mann (1977), to assess two measures of decision-making ability as they relate to the counseling process. Since common concerns brought to counselors are frequently problems of emotionally-laden or ego-involved choice, decision-making skill was assessed on both a consequential ego-involving task and an inconsequential non-ego-involved task. It was hypothesized that different levels of academic achievement and gender would differentiate decision-making skill among college freshman when controlling for the covariates intelligence, locus of control, and state-trait anxiety. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) of scores obtained from the balance sheet procedure yielded only a significant gender effect on the non-ego-involved task. The scores of the low-average group students (low class rank and average SAT scores), the high-low group students (high class rank and low SAT scores) and the high-high group students (high class rank and high SAT scores) did not differ significantly on either decision-making task. Males recorded a larger total number of considerations given for two alternatives on the non-ego-involved task than did females [F (1,45) = 4.87, p < .05]. A Chi-square analysis of decision-making-style categories indicate that females use the vigilant information-processing procedure recommended by Janis and Mann (1977) more frequently than males [x^2 (1) = 6.62, p < .01]. In comparing the responses to the two decision making tasks together, males responded differently to the ego-involved and non-ego-involved tasks while females responded similarly to both tasks [F (1,45) = 6.81, p < .01]. It was determined through supplementary analyses that males listed more gains for the two alternatives on the non-ego-involved task than did females. It was concluded that, among these college freshman, males typically produce more considerations than females for the non-ego-involved task, although females appear to respond in a more vigilant manner to that particular task... | en |
dc.format.extent | ix, 134 leaves | en |
dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Major educational psychology | en |
dc.subject.classification | 1980 Dissertation O81 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Decision making | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Decision making | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Mathematical models | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Achievement motivation | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Testing | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Choice (Psychology) | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Sex differences (Psychology) | en |
dc.title | The effects of achievement and gender on decision-making skill | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
thesis.degree.name | Ph. D | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | LeUnes, Arnold | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Reilley, Robert R. | |
dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
dc.type.material | text | en |
dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
dc.identifier.oclc | 7302084 |
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