This article has four distinct but related purposes. First, we describe the research setting for assessing human information processing style in terms of the rationalintuitive complementarity. We highlight earlier management study that directly deals with this dimension. Then we review popular instruments for assessing style in rational-intuitive terms. Second, we outline a conceptual model that elaborates the rational-intuitive styles of human information processing into three modes each. There are innovative management studies, and Eastern and Western philosophical bases for this model. We use this background to help synthesize three lines of neurophysiological research to formulate a six-mode human information processing (HIP) metaphor. Third, we use the HIP metaphor to develop an HIP survey with a scale for each mode. This section describes how conceptual definitions are derived from the model with guidance from the rational-intuitive term pairs and the survey item pool. Fina...

This study was designed to revise the six scales of the Personal Style Inventory: Planning, Analysis, Control, Vision, Insight, and Sharing. Fifteen items for each scale were evaluated using the confirmatory factor analysis procedure of structural equation modeling as implemented in LISREL 8. Each item pool contained the original five items for each scale plus ten items constructed to supplement the original five. Using a convenience sample of 322 subjects, a revised set of five items was chosen from the 15 item pool for each scale. Several fit measures were examined to determine the adequacy of the model with the revised scales. Measurement model factor loadings were used to evaluate validity and reliability. A test-retest analysis of a 46 subject subsample, coefficient alphas, construct reliabilities, chi-square differences, model values, and confidence intervals were used to assess reliability, internal consistency, and discriminant validity. It was concluded that the revised sca...