2005-04-01
To be or not to be...indecisive: Gender differences, correlations with obsessive-compulsive complaints, and behavioural manifestation
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Personality and Individual Differences , Volume 38 - Issue 5 p. 1175- 1181
Indecisiveness can pose a threat to normal daily functioning. In addition, it has been associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Undergraduate students (N = 135) completed the Indecisiveness Scale (Frost & Shows, 1993) and three other measures. It was found that women are more indecisive than men. Furthermore, indecisiveness correlated positively with several obsessive-compulsive complaints (e.g., checking and rumination), but negatively with life satisfaction. Finally, indecisiveness was associated with the number of do-not-know answers on a scale containing political statements that had to be evaluated by participants. The latter finding suggests that indecisive individuals not only need more time to reach a decision, but that they also actually fail to reach decisions.
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Rassin, E., & Muris, P. (2005). To be or not to be..indecisive: Gender differences, correlations with obsessive-compulsive complaints, and behavioural manifestation. Personality and Individual Differences, 38(5), 1175–1181. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2004.07.014 |
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