How do people make decisions?

What Kind of Decision Maker Are You? (KDM) is a 20-question measure of people’s decision-making tendencies. The questions measure six variables including systematic decision making, intuitive decision making, dependent decision making, avoidant decision making, spontaneous decision making, and the highest ranked decision-making style. This survey can be used to explore relationships between decision-making styles and variables like risk taking, conformity, or age. People who reported more of an avoidant decision-making style also reported experiencing more burnout in their jobs (Michailidis et al., 2016).

Resources:

• Grutzek, Sasha. (2014, October 6). What Kind of Decision Maker Are You? My Learning Solutions. https://mylearningsolutions.org/2014/10/06/what-kind-of-decision-maker-are-you/
• This survey was adapted from Scott, S. G., & Bruce, R. A. (1995). Decision-making style: The development and assessment of a new measure. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 55(5), 818-831. doi: 10.1177/0013164495055005017
• Michailidis, E., & Banks, A. P. (2016). The relationship between burnout and risk-taking in workplace decision-making and decision-making style. Work & Stress, 30(3), 278-292.

Parameters
This survey cannot be tweaked.Disclaimer
This survey has not been validated in previous research.
Any languages that are currently offered besides English for this survey are not necessarily validated translations. This survey was translated using Google Translate and verified by members of the community.
What data is collected? How is it scored?
The following variables are recorded:

• KDM_systematic: Higher scores mean participants make decisions slowly and carefully.
• KDM_intuitive: Higher scores mean participants make decisions based on their feelings.
• KDM_dependent: Higher scores mean participants need support from others to make decisions.
• KDM_avoidant: Higher scores mean participants avoid making big decisions.
• KDM_spontaneous: Higher scores mean participants make decisions quickly and easily.
• KDM_highest_ranked: Shows which of the five decision-making styles above scored highest.

Raw data: 20 questions broken into 6 variables (systematic decision making, intuitive decision making, dependent decision making, avoidant decision making, spontaneous decision making, and the highest ranked decision-making style). Each variable's score ranges from 4-12, except for KDM_highest_ranked which will be a text response of the participants’ highest ranked decision-making style.

Calculation:
Subscores are determined by adding the scores of the questions in each variable. The Likert scale ranges from 1 ("false") to 3 ("true"), so the sums of the scores will range from 4-12.

• KDM_systematic: Sum of questions 1, 6, 11, 16
• KDM_intuitive: Sum of questions 2, 7, 12, 17
• KDM_dependent: Sum of questions 3, 8, 13, 18
• KDM_avoidant: Sum of questions 4, 9, 14, 19
• KDM_spontaneous: Sum of questions 5, 10, 15, 20
• KDM_result: Compares the above five scores and chooses the highest ranking decision-making style; if there is a tie, then both decision-making styles are listed.