Decision Making Styles And Their Associations With...

Stephanie Segovia NSS 101 November 12, 2015 Source: BavoÄ ¾Ãƒ ¡r, Jozef and OÄ ¾ga Orosovà ¡. â€Å"Decision-making styles and their associations with decision-making competencies and mental health.† Judgment and Decision Making 10(2015): 115-122. Web. 1 Jan. 2015 Problem: The issue that is being addressed is finding out what the relationship are between the different decision-making styles and how this affects our decision-making competencies and mental heath. Hypothesis: If you use certain decision-making styles then it will affect the outcome of your mental health and competency. The independent variables are the five decision-making styles which are rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant, and spontaneous. 1. Rational style- has to do†¦show more content†¦Research design: It is a survey type of research design that includes tables and data that is collected by the surveys that have been conducted on the 427 Slovak high school and university students. There were many correlations in the research that was done. Most of it had to deal with that people who are avoidant and spontaneous decision makers do not have the best mental health or do not know how to deal with certain aspects of their life. They investigated the psychometric characteristics of the GDMS and its inner consistency and subscale intercorrelations. Then they studied the relationships between decision-making styles and decision making competencies. Lastly they explored the associations between the decision-making styles and the three indicators of mental health which are ones well-being, how people perceive stress and depression. Time frame: The research lasted a couple of years between 2003-2012 and some during 1999 Operational definitions (Jargon): The few jargon that I found were these few terms General Decision-Making Scale (GDMS), DSM manual, Adult Decision-Making Competence (A-DMC) , and 6-point Likert scale. Sampling: The sample was on a group of people of about 427 from the Slovak high school and university students. In the ï ¬ rst sample there were 213 high school and university students from different schools in KoÃ… ¡ice,