Thinking Style of Adolescence: A Comparative Study Between Two Regions

The purpose of the present study was to examine the differences in thinking styles among adolescence of two different regions Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Total 400 (200 boys and 200 girls) adolescents were taken in the sample. The Thinking Style Scale developed by John, Singh and Verma (2005) was used. The multivariate analysis revealed significant effect of gender, region, as well as their interaction effects on thinking styles of adolescents where judicial thinking style, executive thinking style, monarchic thinking style and anarchic thinking style had significant effect on gender. The legislative thinking style, Hierarchic thinking style, Oligarchic thinking style, Local thinking style had significant effect on region. The results also revealed that the interaction effect of gender and region had significant effect on legislative thinking style.