Paper Key : IRJ************917
Author: D.ponmozhi,B.achya
Date Published: 17 Nov 2024
Abstract
The goal of the current study is to investigate how pupils in higher secondary schools make decisions. 120 samples were selected from one government institution, one self-financing institution, and one aided school using the random sampling technique. In this study, the normative survey method was applied. This study employed the Decision styles questionnaire (Leykin & DeRubeis, 2010). was used in this study. These 36 items in 7 dimensions like Spontaneous, Dependent, Vigilant, Avoidant, Brooding, Intuitive and Anxious Decision styles with 5-point scale with reliability score of 0.8 and a validity score of 0.9. Descriptive, deferential, correlational, and regression analyses were carried out using SPSSIBM23. The higher secondary school students are making decision some times. (73-108). There is a significant relationship between School type, Gender, Age, Medium, Mothers Qualification, Fathers Qualification, Parental Occupation, Parental Income, No Of Family Members, Family Type, Group of study and decision making. The prediction model contained five of the eleven predictors and was reached in five steps with 6 variables removed. The model was statistically significant, F(5, 114) 15.657 , p < .001, and accounted for approximately 63 % of the variance of Decision making (R2 .638 , Adjusted R2 0.407). Inspection of the structure coefficient suggests that, the Group and Gender were relatively strong indicators of Decision making of Higher secondary school children.
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