Assessment of the affective and rational bases for urgent decision-making under extreme circumstances

Abstract

In the framework of dual-type theories, decision making is based on two types of information processing: intuitive and rational. Inspired by this framework, our aims were to develop a brief selfrating measurement instrument to assess the affective and rational bases for urgent decision-making under extreme circumstances, and to study its psychometric properties. The samples comprised cadets from a military academy and participants from the general population. The results showed evidence of acceptable reliability as well as structural, convergent, and discriminant validity for the Bases for Urgent Decisions under Extreme Circumstances Inventory (BUDECI), the new 8-item inventory.

The High Five: Associations of the Five Positive Factors with the Big Five and Well-being

“…From the several oblique rotation criteria for rotating the factors, we selected the Crawford-Ferguson (CF) Quartimax rotation because it produces cleaner factorial structures, similar to the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) results, a type of analysis that we used in a later step. This rotation had been used with data as ordered categories and it had produced interpretable factor solutions in our previous research (Cosentino and Castro Solano, 2014; Cosentino et al, in press). For the rotation procedure, we used the software Comprehensive Exploratory Factor Analysis (version 3.04; Tateneni et al, 2009).…”

Applications of Psychological First Aid in Disaster and Emergency Situations: Its Relationship with Decision-Making

“…Another goal was to corroborate the existence of statistically significant associations between the dimensions of BUDECI test (Cosentino et al 2017) Rational Urgent Decisions with the number of correct answers. The results showed the existence of a positive and statistically significant association between the two variables (r = .59; p <.001).…”

“…To measure the types of decision-making that address urgent situations, the Basis for Urgent Decisions under Extreme Circumstances Inventory (BUDECI) (Cosentino et al Azzollini, Depaula and Castillo 2017) was administered. This instrument is a short protocol made up of eight items designed to evaluate, through two dimensions, the personal tendency to take rational urgent decisions (DUR for its acronym in Spanish) and rational affective decisions (DUA for its acronym in Spanish) under extreme situations.…”

La toma de decisiones de rescatistas y la efectividad en primera ayuda psicológica

“…En un primer módulo se desarrollaron conceptos básicos: respuesta de estrés y estructuras cerebrales involucradas. En el segundo módulo se abordaron cuestiones referidas a la PAP y al protocolo basado en el modelo de las 4 Cs (Azzollini et al, 2017;Farchi, 2012). En el último módulo -de índole práctico-se promovió el espacio para que los rescatistas pusieran en práctica lo adquirido en los dos módulos teóricos precedentes a través de dramatizaciones de situaciones que se repiten en su labor cotidiana.…”

“…En este sentido, Cosentino, Azzollini, Depaula y Castillo (2017) sostuvieron que los juicios rápidos pueden basarse tanto en la emocionalidad como en la racionalidad, y que tomar decisiones rápidas no puede implicar, en sí mismo, tomar decisiones equivocadas. Según Cosentino et al (2017), la toma de decisión urgente ante situaciones extremas está constituida por dos dimensiones. Por una parte, una dimensión que se denomina "Decisión Urgente Emocional-Afectiva" (DUa), referida a la decisión basada en una reacción subjetiva, relacionada principalmente con el estado emocional de la persona.…”