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The Decision Behaviour Inventory (DBI) (Bloggs & Man, 1982) was administered. The original DBI consists of 20 items tapping the four coping styles of complacency, avoidance, hypervigilance and vigilance. Some items were reworded for simplicity and clarity, and to remove any colloquialisms in expression. For example, "I like to go along with other people's decisions" (complacency); "I put off making decisions" (avoidance); "I get anxious when I have to make an important decision" (hypervigilance); "I examine all the alternatives before making a decision" (vigilance). The items used a likert response scale with numbers from 1 "not at all true" to 4 "very true". The inventory was translated into Japanese using the back-translation method (Breese & London, 1973).

Procedure

The Australian data were collected from first year psychology students during a general testing session at the beginning of the year. The Japanese data were collected from first year applied science students during a normal lecture period.

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