Exploring Relationships Between Social Beliefs, Emotional Intelligence and Health-specific Decision Style in the Health Crisis Context

Exploring Relationships Between Social Beliefs, Emotional Intelligence and Health-specific Decision Style in the Health Crisis Context

Hélène Chantal Ngah Essomba

Lecturer, University of Yaounde I

A health crisis context is an extraordinary situation that requires the individual to make appropriate decisions in order to be able to overcome and protect others. This study explored the relationships between social beliefs, emotional intelligence, and health-specific decision style in the health crisis context. With a sample of 291 students (120 males) averaging 25.5 years old, we administered the Conspiracy Theory Belief Scales, Social Beliefs, and Health-Specific Decision Style Scales during the semi-lockdown period due to covid-19 in Cameroon. The results showed that (1) irrational beliefs are positively associated with intuitive style; (2) emotional intelligence is positively associated with the deliberative style and (3) conspiracy belief is positively associated with both modes of thinking. The health-specific decision style in the context of health crisis is linked to the cognitive and emotional processes involved in the situation. These results have been discussed and future avenues raised.

Keywords: decision style, health crisis context, emotional intelligence, conspiracy belief, irrational beliefs

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Hélène Chantal Ngah Essomba. Exploring Relationships Between Social Beliefs, Emotional Intelligence and Health-specific Decision Style in the Health Crisis Context.International Journal of Psychological Research and Reviews, 2022, 5:63. DOI: 10.28933/ijprr-2022-08-0506hcne

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