Structure of Basal Psychical Self-Regulation and Personality Integration in Relation to Coping Strategies in Decision-Making in Paramedics

Abstract

The aim of the study was to find: 1) the relationship between the basic components of the basal mental personality integration (cognitive, emotional, regulatory and adjusting variability), factors of general personality variability (general mental arousal, motoric dynamics) and styles of coping with decisional conflict in decision-making (vigilant, hypervigilant behavior, buck-passing and procrastination) in paramedics, 2) stability, or variability of occurrence of identified relationships among paramedics with different length of experience. Sample: 134 paramedics, age: 22 -51 years, AM = 33.22, SD = 6.26. Methods: Melbourne Decision-Making Questionnaire, MDMQ , Questionnaire SPARO (Mikšík, 2004). Results: Significant relationships between components and factors of mental integration (emotional and regulatory invariability, lower mental arousal) were found. Their integration forms a "calm, mentally stable and resilient personality type" and the choice of hypervigilance and defensive, avoidance strategies: procrastination and buck-passing. Results are interpreted within the context of the personality concept "basal psychical self-regulation and integration" of Mikšík (2004), the theory of conflict by Janis and Mann (1977) with regard to the specific research set (working in stressful conditions, team character of work and typical personality characteristics of paramedics: performance orientation and high need for praise). Apparently, to understand the behavior styles of paramedics in decision-ma king it is necessary to consider the aforementioned occupational and social aspects.Key words: coping strategies (styles, patterns) in decision-making, personality, psychological regulation, decision-making, paramedics Decision-making processes are one of the most significant activities in human life. The meaning of decision-making is present especially in the fact that the quality and results of these processes have a significant influence on the effectiveness of functioning of our personal and occupational life. Our work is based on the opinions of Orasanu and Connolly (1993), who say that from the psychological aspect, decision-making is perceived as a series of cognitive operations of the person making decisions on one hand, and on the other hand, in addition to cogni-

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