Category width cognitive style and decision making processes

Cognitive style in the "category width" dimension and some decision making processes (vigilance, buck-passing, procrastination, hypervigilance, self-e steem) were studied in relation to the "need for structure" personality con struct. The results of the research with a group of 63 university students majoring in technical subjects, mean age 22.8 yrs. (51 men and 12 women) sh owed that broad categorization (in both subscales and in the total sum) is positively connected with procrastination. We interpret this on die basis o n a different ability of a broad categorizer to tolerate mistakes or the te ndency of a narrow categorizer to narrow down categories in order to increa se the certainty of cognitive decision making. The subfactor "response to l ack of structure" (RLS) is in a statistically significant correlation with passing responsibility for decision making to others.