Relationship Between Basic Human Values and Decision-Making Styles in Adolescents

This paper examines the relationship between decision-making styles and values of Spanish adolescents and analyses the role of age and gender on their use of adaptive and maladaptive decision-making styles. The scientific literature suggests that decision-making consists of different stages through which individuals reach a solution to their dilemmas. An ex post facto quantitative, non-experimental research design was used and applied to a sample of adolescents of Madrid (España). The Flinders Adolescents Decision-Making Questionnaire (FADMQ) by Mann as well as the Schwartz Values Scale (SVS) were also used. Correlation analysis was used to analyze the decision-making styles and values of adolescents using the variables gender and age to classify the sample. The study concludes that adolescents who use an adaptive decision-making style tend to pursue mastery of the values Self-direction, Stimulation, Achievement, and Power, whereas adolescents who use a maladaptive style tend to shy away from the value Self-direction and are more conservative. In terms of gender, the results for both females and males coincide in the significant correlations found between their decision-making styles and values. In terms of age, the correlations between values and decision-making styles are higher and numerous in younger adolescents. We conclude that the relationships verified could help educators to engage and act on the development of specific decision-making training programs based on the values of adolescents.

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Exploring the Relationship Between Extended 3Ps and Store Choice: Moderating Role of Consumer Demographics

FIIB Business Review ◽

10.1177/23197145211023407 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 231971452110234

Author(s):

Ajay Bansal ◽

Rahul Gupta

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Store Choice ◽

Consumer Demographics ◽

And Gender ◽

Conclusion Section ◽

Decision Boundaries ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

This study is an attempt to bridge the link between factors representing stores’ decision boundaries and consumers’ decision-making criteria. It also explores the impact of consumer demographic variables on the relationship between the influence of extended 3Ps (process, people and physical evidence) and store choice. Around 290 responses were found suitable for further statistical refinements through a structured survey. After carrying out the reliability and validity properties of the data, structure equation modelling was applied. The findings of the study revealed that individual demographics (income, age and gender) moderated the relationship between the extended 3Ps and consumer store choice for shopping (in this study example of shopping smartphone). However, occupation and education were found to have no different influence by separate segments of population. Also, all demographics have an interpretation for marketers, which are discussed in the conclusion section. The framework used in this article opens up new vistas for research on exploring different consumer segments and service decision-making in retail marketing.

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Leadership and Employee Motivation: Moderating Role of Gender

Adhyayan A Journal of Management Sciences ◽

10.21567/adhyayan.v5i1.8807 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Beena Prakash

Keyword(s):

Transformational Leadership ◽

Employee Motivation ◽

Business Environment ◽

Demand Pull ◽

Logistics Services ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship ◽

Core Issues ◽

Moderating Role

With the present business environment which is creating a strong demand pull for quality and efficient logistics services, core issues are being gradually removed with time but HR issues are still neglected. Motivation can be the key process of boosting the morale of employees to encourage them to willingly give their best in accomplishing assigned tasks. During growth of any sector, dimensions of leadership can have great impact on employee motivation. This research paper analyzes impact of transformational leadership on employee motivation and moderating role of gender. The result shows significant positive correlation between transformational leadership and employee motivation and gender does moderate the relationship.

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Influence of Confucian culture on entrepreneurial decision making using data from China's floating population

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.9309 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (7) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Ran Xiong ◽

Ping Wei

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Floating Population ◽

Positive Role ◽

Confucian Culture ◽

Chinese Nation ◽

Using Data ◽

Entrepreneurial Decision ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Relationship

Confucian culture has had a deep-rooted influence on Chinese thinking and behavior for more than 2,000 years. With a manually created Confucian culture database and the 2017 China floating population survey, we used empirical analysis to test the relationship between Confucian culture and individual entrepreneurial choice using data obtained from China's floating population. After using the presence and number of Confucian schools and temples, and of chaste women as instrumental variables to counteract problems of endogeneity, we found that Confucian culture had a significant role in promoting individuals' entrepreneurial decision making among China's floating population. The results showed that, compared with those from areas of China not strongly influenced by Confucian culture, individuals from areas that are strongly influenced by Confucian culture were more likely to choose entrepreneurship as their occupation choice. Our findings reveal cultural factors that affect individual entrepreneurial behavior, and also illustrate the positive role of Confucianism as a representative of the typical cultures of the Chinese nation in the 21st century.

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Parliamentarism and the Legislative Branch

10.1093/oso/9780198732174.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

András Sajó ◽

Renáta Uitz

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Political Parties ◽

Legislative Branch ◽

Effective Decision ◽

The Law ◽

Internal Operations ◽

Effective Decision Making ◽

The Relationship ◽

Law Making

This chapter examines the relationship between parliamentarism and the legislative branch. It explores the evolution of the legislative branch, leading to disillusionment with the rationalized law-making factory, a venture run by political parties beyond the reach of constitutional rules. The rise of democratically bred party rule is positioned between the forces favouring free debate versus effective decision-making in the legislature. The chapter analyses the institutional make-up and internal operations of the legislature, the role of the opposition in the legislative assembly, and explores the benefits of bicameralism for boosting the powers of the legislative branch. Finally, it looks at the law-making process and its outsourcing via delegating legislative powers to the executive.

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Living with Barren Truths: A Tale of Triumphalism and Tribulations of a Technology

Journal of Human Values ◽

10.1177/09716858211015929 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 097168582110159

Author(s):

Sital Mohanty ◽

Subhasis Sahoo ◽

Pranay Kumar Swain

Keyword(s):

Gender Discrimination ◽

New Technologies ◽

The Body ◽

Social Scientists ◽

Social Fact ◽

Science Technology ◽

The Subject ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship

Science, technology and human values have been the subject of enquiry in the last few years for social scientists and eventually the relationship between science and gender is the subject of an ongoing debate. This is due to the event of globalization which led to the exponential growth of new technologies like assisted reproductive technology (ART). ART, one of the most iconic technological innovations of the twentieth century, has become increasingly a normal social fact of life. Since ART invades multiple human discourses—thereby transforming culture, society and politics—it is important what is sociological about ART as well as what is biological. This article argues in commendation of sociology of technology, which is alert to its democratic potential but does not concurrently conceal the historical and continuing role of technology in legitimizing gender discrimination. The article draws the empirical insights from local articulations (i.e., Odisha state in eastern India) for the understandings of motherhood, freedom and choice, reproductive right and rights over the body to which ART has contributed. Sociologically, the article has been supplemented within the broader perspectives of determinism, compatibilism alongside feminism.

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Online Reviews and Product Sales: The Role of Review Visibility

Journal of theoretical and applied electronic commerce research ◽

10.3390/jtaer16040038 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 638-669

Author(s):

Miriam Alzate ◽

Marta Arce-Urriza ◽

Javier Cebollada

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Dynamic Models ◽

Generalized Method Of Moments ◽

Online Reviews ◽

Consumer Decision Making ◽

Product Sales ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Empirical Analysis

When studying the impact of online reviews on product sales, previous scholars have usually assumed that every review for a product has the same probability of being viewed by consumers. However, decision-making and information processing theories underline that the accessibility of information plays a role in consumer decision-making. We incorporate the notion of review visibility to study the relationship between online reviews and product sales, which is proxied by sales rank information, studying three different cases: (1) when every online review is assumed to have the same probability of being viewed; (2) when we assume that consumers sort online reviews by the most helpful mechanism; and (3) when we assume that consumers sort online reviews by the most recent mechanism. Review non-textual and textual variables are analyzed. The empirical analysis is conducted using a panel of 119 cosmetic products over a period of nine weeks. Using the system generalized method of moments (system GMM) method for dynamic models of panel data, our findings reveal that review variables influence product sales, but the magnitude, and even the direction of the effect, vary amongst visibility cases. Overall, the characteristics of the most helpful reviews have a higher impact on sales.

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No Self Without Salience: Affective and Self-relevance Ratings of 552 Emotionally Valenced and Neutral Dutch Words

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research ◽

10.1007/s10936-021-09784-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lora I. Dimitrova ◽

Eline M. Vissia ◽

Hanneke Geugies ◽

Hedwig Hofstetter ◽

Sima Chalavi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Repeated Measures ◽

Emotional Valence ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Gender And Age ◽

Main Effect ◽

Emotional Salience ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship

AbstractIt is unknown how self-relevance is dependent on emotional salience. Emotional salience encompasses an individual's degree of attraction or aversion to emotionally-valenced information. The current study investigated the interconnection between self and salience through the evaluation of emotional valence and self-relevance. 56 native Dutch participants completed a questionnaire assessing valence, intensity, and self-relevance of 552 Dutch nouns and verbs. One-way repeated-measures ANCOVA investigated the relationship between valence and self, age and gender. Repeated-measures ANCOVA also tested the relationship between valence and self with intensity ratings and effects of gender and age. Results showed a significant main effect of valence for self-relevant words. Intensity analyses showed a main effect of valence but not of self-relevance. There were no significant effects of gender and age. The most important finding presents that self-relevance is dependent on valence. These findings concerning the relationship between self and salience opens avenues to study an individual's self-definition.

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