Further Validation of the Indecisiveness Scale

Gayton, William F.; Clavin, Raymond H; Clavin, Sherry L.; Broida, John

doi:10.2466/pr0.1994.75.3f.1631

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“…Across cultural and sex groups, the scale was reliable at alpha levels from .80 to .90, consistent with past work (Frost & Gross, 1993;Frost & Shows, 1993;Gayton et al, 1994). The results provide further evidence for the inter-item reliability of this scale for American men and women, and new evidence for Chinese men and women.…”

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confidence: 74%

“…Responses are typically elicited on a Likert scale ranging from 1 (Highly agree) to 5 (Highly disagree), with positive statements reverse coded so that low scores indicate high indecisiveness. With American college-student samples, the internal reliability of the scale is high (alpha range = .80-.90; Frost & Gross, 1993;Frost & Shows, 1993;Gayton et al, 1994). This scale has been cited in nearly 100 articles in personality, clinical, educational, industrial and consumer psychology.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Individuals high on indecisiveness take more time to choose among alternatives (Frost & Shows, 1993), use less-exhaustive decision strategies (Ferrari & Dovidio, 2000, require greater cognitive effort to make decisions (Ferrari & Dovidio, 2001), are more threatened by ambiguous situations (Rassin & Muris, 2005b), and are more likely to postpone decisions (Rassin & Muris, 2005a), compared to those low on indecisiveness. In naturalistic contexts, indecisive individuals have greater difficulty choosing college majors (Gayton, Clavin, Clavin, & Broida, 1994), choosing careers (Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996), and making other life decisions (Germeijs & De Boeck, 2002). Not surprisingly, these individuals report more negative health consequences resulting from this decision style (Frost & Shows, 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These include self-esteem (Burka & Yuen, 1983;Ferrari, 1991), neuroticism (Jackson, Furnham, & Lawty-Jones, 1999), behavioral procrastination (Beswick, Rothblum, & Mann, 1988;Effert & Ferrari, 1989;Ferrari, 1992), obsessive-compulsive tendencies (Frost & Shows, 1993;Gayton et al, 1994), hoarding behavior (Frost & Gross, 1993;Frost & Shows, 1993), perfectionism (Frost & Shows, 1993;Gayton et al, 1994), and distractibility (Harriott, Ferrari, & Dovidio, 1996). Because of its challenging behavioral consequences, as well as the extent to which it is associated with and compounded by a wide range of negative tendencies, indecisiveness merits further exploration.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Indecisiveness Scale was developed using data from women (Frost & Shows, 1993), and was later validated with a small sample of male undergraduates (Gayton et al, 1994). In the only known sex comparison, Rassin and Muris (2005a) found Dutch undergraduate women (n = 106) to be reliably more indecisive than men (n = 29).…”

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Cross-cultural exploration of the Indecisiveness Scale: A comparison of Chinese and American men and women

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2006

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Section: Scale Reliability Summarysupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Indecisiveness and response to risk in deciding when to decide

Patalano

Wengrovitz

2007

Behavioral Decision Making

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When making decisions, people must determine not only what to choose but also when to choose. Do individuals modulate behavior in response to potential risks associated with delay in determining when to choose? The present work provides evidence that at least one group of people-indecisive individuals-do not. Two process-tracing studies simulated a 5-day college-course selection period in which new course alternatives appeared on each day. In a risk-free condition, no risks were associated with delay of decision making over the days. In a risk condition, each day of delay was associated with a risk of loss of existing course alternatives. Unlike decisive individuals, who modulated days of deliberation in response to presence versus absence of risk, indecisive individuals did not. The results illustrate not that indecisive individuals show uniformly increased delay relative to others, but rather that their delay behavior may be more striking in its unresponsiveness to risk.

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The relationship between indecisiveness and eye movement patterns in a decision making informational search task

Patalano

Juhasz

Dicke

2009

Behavioral Decision Making

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Indecisiveness is a trait-related general tendency to experience decision difficulties across a variety of situations, leading to decision delay, worry, and regret. Indecisiveness is proposed (Rassin, 2007) to be associated with an increase in desire for information acquisition and reliance on compensatory strategies-as evidenced by alternative-based information search-during decision making. However existing studies provide conflicting findings. We conducted an information board study of indecisiveness, using eye tracking methodology, to test the hypotheses that the relationship between indecisiveness and choice strategy depends on being in the early stage of the decision making process, and that it depends on being in the presence of an opportunity to delay choice. We found strong evidence for the first hypothesis in that indecisive individuals changed shift behavior from the first to the second half of the task, consistent with a move from greater to lesser compensatory processing, while the shift behavior of decisive individuals suggested lesser compensatory processing over the whole task. Indecisiveness was also related to time spent viewing attributes of the selected course, and to time spent looking away from decision information. These findings resolve past discrepancies, suggest an interesting account of how the decision process unfolds for indecisive versus decisive individuals, and contribute to a better understanding of this tendency.

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Further Validation of the Indecisiveness Scale

Cited by 47 publications

References 3 publications

Cross-cultural exploration of the Indecisiveness Scale: A comparison of Chinese and American men and women

Cross-cultural exploration of the Indecisiveness Scale: A comparison of Chinese and American men and women

Indecisiveness and response to risk in deciding when to decide

The relationship between indecisiveness and eye movement patterns in a decision making informational search task

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