Spanish validation of General Decision-Making Style scale: Sex invariance, sex differences and relationships with personality and coping styles

Alacreu‐Crespo, Adrián; Fuentes, María C.; Abad‐Tortosa, Diana; Cano‐López, Irene; González, Esperanza; Serrano, Miguel A.

doi:10.1017/s1930297500005453

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“…In this way, the developed five-factor decision-making styles structure model forms individual factors or decision-making styles more clearly and, at the same time, establishes the same structure as the original GDMS inventory (Scott & Bruce, 1995), which was confirmed by other authors (Loo, 2000;Thunholm, 2004;Spicer & Sadler-Smith, 2005;Gambetti, et al, 2008;Curşeu & Schruijer;Avsec, 2012;Erenda, Meško & Bukovec;Bavoľár & Orosová, 2015;Alacreu-Crespo, et. al, 2019).…”

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“…The association of these two variables in the same factor is not surprising, as different authors have found statistically significant correlations between the intuitive and spontaneous decision-making styles (Scott & Bruce, 1995;Thunholm, 2004;Spicer & Sadler-Smith, 2005;Wood, 2012;Verma, Rangnekar & Barua, 2012;Curşeu & Schruijer, 2012;Faletič & Avsec, 2013;Reyna, Ortiz & Revilla, 2014;Hariri, et al, 2014;Bavoľár & Orosová 2015;Berisha, et al, 2018;Geisler & Allwood, 2018). Based on this, it can be concluded that both styles have the same cognitive structure in the background, which could be named the intuitive-experiential cognitive style (Sagiv, Amit, Ein-Gar & Arieli, 2013;Alacreu--Crespo, et. al, 2019).…”

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“…They mainly focus on logic, order and the systematic analysis of information; -intuitive style: characteristic of those who pay a lot of attention to details in the information flow and, instead of systematically searching and processing information, mainly consider their feelings about whether a certain decision is correct or not; -dependent style: characteristic of people who seek advice, support and confirmation from others before making an important decision; -spontaneous style: characteristic of those who have a sense of urgency and thus a desire to complete the decision-making process as soon as possible and make a decision; -avoidant style; characteristic of people who want to avoid making a decision whenever possible. In various studies on samples from different countries, numerous authors (Loo, 2000;Thunholm, 2004;Spicer & Sadler-Smith, 2005;Gambetti, Fabbri, Bensi & Tonetti, 2008;Curşeu & Schruijer;Erenda, Meško & Bukovec;Bavoľár & Orosová, 2015;Alacreu-Crespo et al, 2019) have confirmed the validity (using factor analysis) and reliability (using Cronbach's alpha coefficient) of the GDMS inventory as suggested by Scott and Bruce (1995).…”

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“…Thus, the rational and dependent decision-making styles have a background in the rational-analytical cognitive style, while the intuitive ANNALES KINESIOLOGIAE • 13 • 2022 • 1 and spontaneous decision-making styles have a background in the intuitive-experiential cognitive style (Sagiv et. al, 2013;Alacreu-Crespo et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…GDMS scales have previously shown good psychometric characteristics (Scott & Bruce, 1995;Loo, 2000;Thunholm, 2004;Spicer & Sadler-Smith, 2005;Gambetti, et. al, 2008;Curşeu & Schruijer;Avsec, 2012;Erenda, et al;Bavoľár & Orosová, 2015;Alacreu-Crespo, et. al, 2019).…”

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Decision-making style structure of Slovenian sports managers

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Tušak

2022

Ann. Kin.

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Purpose: Decisions that we make are always burdened with consequences, which are the inevitable result of our decision-making. The decision-making style (DMS) is the way in which managers acquire, process and use information in decision-making processes. The goals of the present research are to define the factor structure of DMS for a sample of Slovenian sports managers and to determine the characteristics of their DMS structure. Methods: 80 managers of Slovenian sports organizations filled in an anonymous internet survey. The DMS was measured with the use of the General Decision-Making Style Inventory (GDMS), which was translated into the Slovenian language. The GDMS questionnaire measures five different decision-making styles: rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant and spontaneous. The factor analysis (FA) method was used to test the assumption about the structure of the DMS. The internal consistency was measured using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to study the relationship between the DMS. Results: After three successive implementations of FA, we developed an optimized DMS model with 20 items confirming that when making decisions, sports managers use a combination of all five DMS. Slovenian sports managers mostly use the rational and dependent DMS, indicating that they are mostly rational decision-makers. We also recognized the correlation between the rational and the dependent style, but since the structure of the DMS in our sample is dominated by the rational DMS, we could conclude that this is a dependent-rational DMS, where mangers seek advice, opinions and knowledge from colleagues when making decisions to increasing their rationality. Conclusions: We can conclude that the recognized average structure of the DMS is functional and healthy; furthermore, Slovenian sports managers are on average rational decision-makers who, due to the specific organizational characteristics of sports organizations, look for confirmation and opinions on future decisions in the broader environment of the organizations' stakeholders.

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