The Subjective Quality of Choice Technique: Qualitative Dimensions of Choice as a Self-Orientation Activity

Dmitry Leontiev (), Anna Fam (), Evgeny Osin () and Elena Ovchinnikova ()
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Dmitry Leontiev: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Anna Fam: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Evgeny Osin: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Elena Ovchinnikova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: This article is dedicated to the analysis of the main parameters of choice as a self-determination activity and to the elaboration of a special tool for their assessment. Our aim was to allocate process-related subjective indicators of the quality of concrete choices. We developed and validated a 16-item questionnaire called the Subjective quality of choice technique which measures four qualitative dimensions of choice: mindfulness, emotional valence, self-determination, and satisfaction with the outcome. This four-factor structure of choice parameters was relatively invariant in different real life situations of significant choices (local elections, university attendance, vocational orientation at high school, etc.). The Subjective quality of choice technique allows us to explicate the subjective picture of making personal choice as an intrinsically vs. extrinsically regulated process and to study its phenomenology.

Keywords: choice; subjective quality of choice; self-determination activity; parameters of choice process; subjective construing of choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2015
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Psychology / PSY, November 2015, pages 1-12

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