Accounting for Individual Differences in Decision-Making Competence: Personality and Gender Differences.

ABSTRACT: Emerging research has highlighted the utility of measuring individual differences in decision-making competence (DMC), showing that consistently following normatively rational principles is associated with positive psychosocial and health behaviors. From another level of analysis, functional theories of personality suggest that broad trait dimensions represent variation in underlying self-regulatory systems, providing a mechanistic account for robust associations between traits and similar life outcomes. Yet, the degree to which broad dispositional personality dimensions predict global tendencies to respond rationally is less understood. In a large online community sample (N = 804), we tested the associations between HEXACO personality dimensions, a 6-factor structural trait model,

SUBMITTER: Weller J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6276324 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature