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Full Length Research Paper
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A
study of resilience in relation to personality, cognitive
styles and decision making style of management students
Reza Gharoie Ahangar
Department of Business Administration, Islamic Azad
University, Babol branch, Iran. E-mail:
Reza_gh578@yahoo.com.
Tel: 989111161810.
Accepted 11 May, 2010 |
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Abstract |
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Resilience is one of the essential ingredients to lead a happy
and healthy life. It refers to successful adaptation of an
individual despite risk, acute stressors, and chronic
adversities.
Resilient people are more determined and they can enhance their
efforts especially under difficult situation. There is a belief
that people are born with resilient attributes; but researches
proved that resilience can be improved through effective
training and development. Indeed, various theories such as
developmental cognitive and psychodynamic stressed on the
importance of resilience in individual life. The
role of resilience in managerial life is also worth looking in
to. Managers
need to be more resilient so that they can bounce back from the
loads of pressures and adversities they encounter in business. Business
requires specific mindset to meet the demands of the work place
environment. In this context there is a need to understand the
resilient quality of a manager against his/her personality
traits and thinking pattern. With
this assumption, a research is designed to
examine
the relationship of personality dispositions, cognitive and
decision making styles with resilience of management students. A
sample of 130 students was
selected randomly between the age group of 20 - 25 years from a
management faculty in Tehran.
The tests used in the study are resilience inventory, mbti,
cognitive style inventory and decision making inventory.
Results showed that resilience has a positive association with
thinking personality type whereas; it has shown inverse
relationship with feeling-personality type. Furthermore, the
systematic and intuitive-cognitive styles have shown positive
correlation with resilience. Behavioral-decision style has
found negative association with resilience. Finally, the
systematic-cognitive style has shown significant influence on
resilience. The study concludes with the implication of
resilience in the business world and approaches to enhance
resilience in the management students.
Key words:
Decision making, cognitive, personality, management students. |
