The purpose of this study was to determine whether a significant relationship exists between cognitive style and decision style of selected leisure services administrators in the State of California. Variables included were age, sex, educational level, and experience as an administrator. / Ninety-five administrators in attendance at the annual Administrators' Institute at Asilomar in Monterey, California were included in this study. Participants were asked to complete Coscarelli's Decision Making Inventory and Witkin's Group Embedded Figures Test. After the instruments were completed, scored, and data compiled, the data generated were analyzed utilizing the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences subprograms FREQUENCIES and CROSSTABS. / A profile of the administrators in attendance reveals a wide range, but a typical administrator was: male (78%), between 36 and 42 years old (35%), had earned a bachelors degree (55%), and had been an administrator from six to ten years (30%). According to the data collected and analyzed at the .05 alpha level, there appears to be little relationship between the manner by which a person thinks and perceives information and the method of analysis or the way information is gathered for the decision-making process. / The three statistically significant relationships that were found were a relationship between age and cognitive style and a relationship between cognitive style and decision style for those individuals holding a bachelor's degree. In addition, it was significant that 68 (72%) of the administrators utilized a systematic method of gathering information in their decision-making process. / Two apparent trends emerged from the data collected: (a) as longevity as an administrator increased, a shift in cognitive style became more prominent from field independence to field sensitivity; and (b) as educational level increased, a shift was apparent in cognitive style from field sensitivity to field independence; and a shift in decision-making style from systematic-external to systematic-internal was noted. Neither of these trends, however, is statistically significant. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-02, Section: A, page: 0277. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76038 |
| Contributors | SILBERMAN, C. GEE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 106 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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