Domain-specificity of measures of intuition preference
Preference for intuition was expected to be domain-specific; nurses who trust intuition in nursing may not trust their intuition in all areas of life. To test this, the relationships among the measures of nursing intuition and the measures of general intuition were examined. It was predicted that relationships among nursing intuition measures and among general intuition measures should be stronger than the relationships between nursing and general intuition measures.
Almost all aspects of nursing intuition were correlated with one another. A similar pattern was found for aspects of general intuition, including REI experiential ability, REI experiential favourability, MBTI Intuition, MBTI Feeling and TIntS affective (Table 4). Almost all inter-correlations were significant. Correlations between nursing and general measures were examined (Table 5). The relationships ranged from non-significant to moderate, where correlations from 0•10–0•30 are considered small, 0•30–0•50 are considered moderate and greater than 0•50 are considered large (Cohen & Cohen 1983).