Publication: Personality traits and decision-making style of polic officers assigned in Rosario, La Union
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2022-04
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Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University - South La Union Campus
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Decision-making is an integral part of daily interactions. Personal traits, on the
other hand affect the way we think and decide. Police officers are responsible in
maintaining public order and safety, enforcing the law, and preventing, detecting, and
inves tigating criminal activities. This study aims to examine the dominant personality traits
and decision-making styles of the police officers at Rosario, La Union, and also to
determine the relationship of their demographic profile and their personality traits
including their decision-making styles.
The respondents of the study were the thirty-one (31) police officers designated at
Rosario, La Union. To answer the five specific objectives, percentages, descriptive
statistics, chi- square test, Cramer's V were employed in the collected data, respectively.
Results revealed that most of respondents were young, male, single, no children,
and new to the organization as police ofJicers with a rank of patrolman/patrolwoman. The
dominant personality traits of the respondents were the low extraversion followed by high
openness. Using median, intuitive, and dependent decision-making styles dominantly the
decision-making styles with agreeable level of decision-making styles of the respondents.
Using chi-square test and Cramer's V, only rank or position of the respondents has
a strong significant relationship with conscientiousness personal trait. Between profile and
decision-making style, respondents' rank has a strong significant relationship with
dependent and rational decision-making style. The respondents' number of years in service
has a strong relationship as well with dependent and rational decision-making styles,
significantly.
As to relationship of personality traits and decision-making style, there were only
three (3) personality traits that has a strong stgnificant relationship with the decisionmaking styles namely: between openness and rational; between agreeableness and
intuitive, spontaneous, and avoidant; neuroticism and intuitive, and avoidant.
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Espiritu, J. J. S., AlmiƱe, J. F., Cuizon, P. R., & Nidoy, M. C. J. (2022) Personality traits and decision-making style of polic officers assigned in Rosario, La Union [Unpublsihed Undergraduate thesis]. Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University - South La Union Campus, Agoo, La Union.