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Article: Further reflections on the nature of intuition-analysis and the construct validity of the Cognitive Style Index. (Commentary).
- Article from:
- Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Hodgkinson and Sadler-Smith (2003) refer to two rival theoretical positions regarding cognitive style. One posits that it can best be conceived within a complex multidimensional framework and the other is based on the assumption that various facets of style can be meaningfully subsumed under a single overarching dimension. They argue that Allinson and Hayes (1996) incorrectly specified the nature of cognitive style when they presented the Allinson-Hayes Cognitive Style Index (CSI) as a measure of intuition-analysis predicated on a unitarist conception of the construct; and they question the validity of the CSI's unifactorial structure on the basis of theoretical and ...