DO DECISION-MAKING STYLES HELP EXPLAIN HEALTH-RISK BEHAVIOUR AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN ADDITION TO PERSONALITY FACTORS?

• Authors: Bavoľár Jozef , Bačíkova-Slešková Mária
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Previous research has indicated that certain decision-making styles are associated with decision outcomes. This article focuses specifically on one area of decision outcomes – health-risk behaviour – and examines if decision-making styles explain the variance in risk behaviour over the Big Five factors. Five decision-making styles (rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant, and spontaneous) and five types of risk behaviour (alcohol use, internet use, junk food consumption, cigarette smoking, condom use) were identified in 374 university students. The results differ among the types of risk behaviour, although generally, decision-making styles help to improve the models explaining risk behaviour in the case of alcohol use and problematic internet use with the avoidant and dependent styles having the most prominent role.

Keywords

EN

DECISION-MAKING; HEALTH-RISK BEHAVIOUR; ALCOHOL USE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; INTERNET

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 71 – 83

Contributors

author

Bavoľár Jozef

• Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic

author

Bačíkova-Slešková Mária

Identifiers

DOI

10.21909/sp.2018.02.753