关键词: 风险偏好, 信息完整性, 信息板, 职业决策

Abstract: Risk preference is a result-based trait. Seldom research have tried to link the process variables to it. Current study focuses on the relationship between risk preference and information process. Also, information integrity is regarded for its potential influence. In this study, the mouselab technology was used to explore the difference and similarity in information processing mode of high and low risk preference individuals. The subjects were 31 junior and senior students, including 16 high risk preference students and 15 low risk preference students selected according to a former career decision making questionnaire over 125 college junior and senior students. The selected 7 cues appeared in the mouselab rows, and 3 options appeared in the mouselab columns. Among the 7 cues, the former 6 cues were used to describe the option itself, and the last one was used to represent the possibility of getting the job. The study used a 2×2 (high risk preference/low risk preference) × (all information can be discovered/few information is unknown) design. Risk preference was tested between subjects, and information integrity was tested within subjects. The recorded dependent variables were as follows: (1) acquisition of information, the total click of one mouselab; (2) the mean hit rate of each cue; (3) depth of search, DS= the number of opened cells/the total number of cells. The results of the experiment showed that: (1) low risk preference individuals took more attention on the cue presenting the possibility of getting the job than high risk preference individuals; (2) when some information were missing, individuals tended to rely more on the cue presenting the possibility of getting the job; (3) the information integrity had no specific impact on information process and potential decision strategy; (4) the amount of information searched to make a decision had no significant change among different conditions although the useful information obtained was different. Current study discovers a potential linkage between risk preference and information process. The different risk preference may be due to the difference preference in obtaining or using the possibility information of a decision problem.

Key words: risk preference, information integrity, mouselab, career decision making