Personality traits and decision making styles among university students (Pakistan)

Keeping the literature available on human personality traits and their impact on human behaviors (for example decision making),this study was designed. the primary aim of the study was to explore personality traits and decision making styles among young adults. furthermore it was also aimed to investigate if there is any relationship between above said phenomena and if there is any gender differences exists. moreover this study was designed to examine the personality traits as a predictor of decision making styles among young adults. the sample of study comprised of 402 university students including both male (n=178,44%) and female (n=224,56%). after taking informed consent the data was collected through convenient sampling. big five inventory (bfi) developed by john and srivastava,1999 and decision making style inventory by scott and bruce,1995 were used as an instruments to measure personality and decision making styles respectively. the results revealed that conscientiousness leads to rational decision making style (p=0.014). females showed higher decision making capability than males (p=0.003). hostel resident students were more conscientious than non-hostel residents (p=0.034). urban students were more rational in decision making than rural students (p=0.047). students from nuclear family type showed both decision making styles i.e. rational and intuitive than of joint family system (p=0.05). it was concluded that conscientious people make rational decisions and females tend to have good decision making capability as compared to males.