Analyzing Decision-Making Styles: Army vs. Business students in Croatia.

This research is a continuation of previous research in which two instruments for analysing the individuals' decision-making styles are applied to the population of students. The first is the Rowe instrument (used to identify the dominant decision-making style among analytical, behavioral, conceptual, and directive). The second is Scott & Bruce instrument (used to identify the dominant decision-making style among rational, intuitive, spontaneous, dependent, and avoidant styles). Now again, both were applied to a new sample. However, in both cases, we talk about the army and business students from the same faculties. The first sample was collected in 2020 (before COVID-19), and the second was collected in 2022 (after the COVID-19). We used descriptive statistics, t-tests with one-way ANOVA, and the χ2 test in the data analysis. We analyzed the two samples separately and made the analysis on the joint sample, and finally, we analyzed some subsets. Significant differences were not identified in many cases, but not all. The distribution of 2022 students per Rowe's dominant decision styles differs significantly from that of students in 2020. The distribution of 2022 army students per Bruce & Scott's dominant decision styles is significantly different from the distribution of 2020 army students. There are significant differences in dominant decision-making styles using Scott & Bruce's instrument in students with respect to high school education and type of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]