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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: effects of achievement and gender on decision-making skill
  name:
    name part: Osborn, Stephen Mark
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Borman, Christopher
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: LeUnes, Arnold
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Reilley, Robert R.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1980
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 134 leaves : forms ; 29 cm
  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 wa…
  note: "Major subject: Educational Psychology."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1980
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-99).
  subject:
    topic: Achievement motivation
    topic: Testing
  subject:
    topic: Choice (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Sex differences (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Major educational psychology
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-658778
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 810403
    record change date: 20220104090523.0
    record identifier: in00000643702
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng