Decision-Making Styles and Self-Awareness among Destitute Adolescent Girls

The study examines self-awareness based on decision-making styles for destitute adolescent girls. The sample consisted of 16 destitute adolescent girls aged 11-19 years from a destitute home in Kerala. Self-awareness is an essential skill that enables the individual to understand ones strengths and weakness, likes and dislikes which will equip them to deal with life stressors, develop effective communication and interpersonal relations, and to deal constructively with decisions about their lives. Decision-making style is a learned, habitual pattern that an individual exhibits in a decision situation. The Self-Awareness scale (Crisp Coaching & Consultancy, 2003) was applied to measure how well they know themselves, their values, priorities, interests, fears, beliefs and hopes. The General Decision-Making Scale (Scott & Bruce, 1994) measured 5-dimensions of decision-making styles namely-rational, intuitive, spontaneous, dependent and avoidant. The t-test of significance was used. Results indicate a significant difference between the self-awareness and avoidant and intuitive decision-making style, and also between spontaneous and intuitive decision-making style.