Personality traits of recruits with different risky decision making behavior

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1009-6574.2015.02.010

Abstract：Objective To explore the risky decision behavior of Chinese recruits and the personali‐ty traits of who have different decision behavior .Methods A sample of 1764 male recruits was assessed with self -designed decision making scale ,Positive Mental Characters Scale for Recruits (PMCS -R) , Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ ) ,and Zuckerman -Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZK‐PQ ) by random cluster sampling .Results 63 .5% and 76 .9% recruits chose risky option in positive and negative information framings ,respectively ,with statistical significance (χ2 = 75 .52 ,P< 0 .05) .In pos‐itive information framings ,recruits who chose safe option showed higher scores in wisdom ,humanity , temperance ,transcendence ,the total score of PMCS -R and lower scores in psychoticism ,impulsivity and sensation seeking than the recruits who chose risky option (P< 0 .05) .In negative information fram‐ings ,recruits who chose safe option showed lower scores in wisdom and justice (P < 0 .05);positive mental characters were positively associated with introversion-extroversion and lie ,and negatively asso‐ciated with psychoticism ,nervousness and impulsivity (P< 0 .05) .Conclusions Recruits in negative in‐formation framings are more likely to choose risky option;recruits who choose safe option in positive in‐formation framings show high levels of positive mental characters and low levels of psychoticism ,impul‐sivity and sensation seeking ;recruits who choose risky option in negative information framings show high levels of positive mental characters .