Intrapersonal Intelligence and Decision-Making Ability of Higher Secondary School Students

Abstract

The study aims to explore the level and relationship between intrapersonal intelligence and the decision-making ability of higher secondary school students. The study employed a survey-based quantitative method. The sample includes 500 higher secondary level school students in West Bengal, India. The investigators applied two self-made questionnaires, one for measuring intrapersonal intelligence and another for measuring decision-making ability. The results reveal that gender (3.22, p<0.01) and stream (4.05, p<0.001) have significant influences on the intrapersonal intelligence of the higher secondary school students. Decision-making Ability has a statistically significant and positive association with intrapersonal intelligence (0.42, p<0.001). Results show that all the four dimensions of intrapersonal intelligence, i.e., self-awareness (2.871, p<0.01), self-retrospection (2.540, p<0.01), self-regard (5.265, p<0.001), and self-adaptation (4.983, p<0.001) significantly increase the decision- making ability of the higher secondary school students.