RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Role of Phenotypic Personality Traits as Dimensions of Decision-making Styles
Osman Gulseven1, *, Jacques Mostert2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 12
First Page: 84
Last Page: 95
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-12-84
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101912010084
Article History:
Received Date: 08/11/2018Revision Received Date: 01/02/2019
Acceptance Date: 06/03/2019
Electronic publication date: 28/03/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Each individual has unique personality traits which affect decision-making process. Those traits are defined as cautiousness, openness to experience, decision difficulty, agency, emotion neutrality, goal orientation, intuitive awareness, plan orientation, pro-activity, and rationality.
Objective:
The study aimed to show how established personality traits as dimensions of decision-making can be used to classify four distinct decision-making styles. The personality styles are defined as avoidant, designer, flexible, and auditor styles.
Methods:
A global survey was conducted to gather information on individual decision-making styles. Quantitative methods, such as tabular analysis, mean score equivalency test, correlation analysis, discriminant analysis and chi-square test for association have been used.
Results:
We found that there are significant gender differences in personality styles. This is partially due to the differences in emotion-neutrality scores among men and women. Female respondents are more emotional, a finding that is common in educational workers.
Conclusion:
The results reinforce that gender differences in emotions exist. For a socially interactive occupation such as education, being emotional might lead to better communication.