ANXIETY AIMD DECISION-MAKIIMG STYLES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
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2012
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The present study was conducted to find out the effect o f anxiety
on decision-making styles among college students. Two hundred
students were randomly selected from various departments of
different colleges in Coimbatore, between the age group o f 20 to 24
years. The Decision-Making Questionnaire by Mann (1982) and
Sinha’s Anxiety Scale (1968) were used. Findings revealed that if the
students become more anxious they tend to adopt vigilant decisionmaking
style; female students were higher in defensive avoidance
and rationalization than their male counterparts.