Decision-Making Styles and Decision Outcomes

Abstract

DecisionDecision-making stylesStyle are a set of ingrained habits that an individual exhibits when faced with a decisionDecision situation and have been investigated in relation to a variety of psychological and behavioral variables. This chapter looks at the associations between these stylesStyle and the broad category of real-lifeLife decisionDecision outcomesOutcome. It firstly presents the main approachesApproach to decisionDecision-making stylesStyle and their categorizations and subsequently discusses the domain of decisionDecision qualityQuality and criteria for its evaluationEvaluation. The overall pattern of the explored relationships between decisionDecision-making stylesStyle and decisionDecision outcomesOutcome is similar in objective and subjective outcomesOutcome as well as in mental healthHealth, mental. The rational and intuitive stylesStyle generally appear more advantageous, while the avoidant styleStyle is the most disadvantageous one. The discussion of probable mechanisms over the “styleStyle-outcomeOutcome ” relationships focuses on cognitive and motivational aspects. These are together with the call for a more unifying and more complex approachApproach also emphasized in the challenges for the future researchResearch.