A repercussion of cognitive correlates on thinking styles in different career personality types

Abstract

Proliferation and amelioration are going on in the investigation in the field of thinking styles from last past decade. The coherence of the thinking styles are yet searching in a large frame of interest and knowledge in the field of psychology. The cynosure of this paper is to see the consanguinity of different cognitive variables on thinking styles of professionals having different career personality. The cognitive dimensions studied in this paper to unfold its impact on thinking styles are cognitive styles, metacognition and cognitive rigidity (stress, anxiety and depression) on 200 professionals with different career personality types. After having a systematic review on the cognitive correlates, this article puts a flag pole as thinking styles are the individual’spreferred way of doing the task, professionals in different career shows bifurcation in there thinking styles. Results after appropriate statistical techniques shows that there is consanguinity between the thirteen thinking styles and cognitive correlates that are metacognition, cognitive styles and cognitive rigidity in professionals.