Chiara Marche, George Baourakis, Eleftherios Fakotakis, Alessandra Nieddu, Alessandra Errigo, Giovanni Mario Pes
The impact of nutrition on psycho-affective status in an older Cretan population: a cross-sectional study
European journal of nutrition
decisionmaking relies analytical emotional thinking cognitive reasoning styles eg maximizing satisficing tendencies heavily influence analytical processes affective processes often dependent regret relationship regret cognitive reasoning styles well studied physicians focus paper regret questionnaire 6 scales measuring individual differences cognitive styles maximizingsatisficing tendencies analytical vs intuitive reasoning need cognition intolerance toward ambiguity objectivism cognitive reflection administered webbased survey physicians university south florida bonferronis adjustment applied overall correlation analysis correlation analysis also performed without bonferronis correction given strong theoretical rationale indicating need separate hypothesis also conducted multivariate regression analysis identify unique influence predictors regret 165 trainees 56 attending physicians age range 25 69 participated survey bivariate analysis found maximizing tendency positively correlated regret respect decision difficulty r0673 p0001 alternate search strategy r0239 p0002 bonferronis correction applied also found negative relationship satisficing tendency regret r0156 p0021 trainees faculty regret negatively correlated rationalanalytical thinking r0422 p0001 need cognition r0340 p0001 objectivism r0309 p0003 positively correlated ambiguity intolerance r0285 p0012 however conducting multivariate regression analysis found regret positively associated maximizing respect decision difficulty r0791 p0001 negatively associated satisficing r0257 p0020 objectivism r0267 p0034 found statistically significant relationship regret overall accuracy conditional inferential tasks regret physicians strongly associated tendency maximize ie tendency consider choices among abundant options leads regret however physicians exhibit satisficing tendency inclination accept good enough solution feel less regret observation objectivism negative predictor regret indicates tendency seek use empirical data decisionmaking leads less regret therefore promotion evidencebased reasoning may lead lower regret