Decision-making style and emotional intelligence in post-COVID young people

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To study the interrelationships of decision-making style as a reflection of individual differences in coping with uncertainty and emotional creativity as a factor of self-realization in young people who have had COVID-19.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We examined 100 convalescents aged 18.2±2.25 years, including 50 men (Group M) and 50 women (Group G) (the age difference between the groups is not significant). The main transferred clinical forms of COVID-19 were the inapparent form — 42.0% (group M — 32 people, group G — 10 people), acute respiratory viral infection — 56.0% (group M — 17 people, group G — 39 people) according to the Russian versions of the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire (MDMQ) and the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI).RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: In both groups of examined individuals after suffering COVID-19 in all clinical forms of the disease, the «vigilance” strategy, considered as productive, is of the greatest importance in the decision- making process; unproductive strategies are not expressed, which is important for the subsequent medical and psychological support of convalescents. It is noted that the interaction between the factors of emotional creativity is expressed not only in an increase in creativity when high values coincide on two or more faces, but also in the fact that low values of one component can be compensated by high values of another.CONCLUSION: The data obtained are important for conducting medical and psychological support for convalescents and for preventing the formation of professional burnout, and for quick adaptation to various life situations, and for motivation to prevent the occurrence of changes in functional states after suffering COVID-19.