Exploring maximizing,satisficing and minimizing tendency in decision-making among autistic and neurotypical individuals |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Health, University of Canterbury – Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, Christchurch, New Zealand;2. A Better Start National Science Challenge, New Zealand;3. Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Otago, New Zealand;4. Mental Health Division, Canterbury District Health Board, New Zealand;5. The Werry Centre, Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, New Zealand;6. New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand;7. School of Clinical Medicine, Primary Care Clinical Unit, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;1. Developmental Pediatric Unit, Child Health Department, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman;2. Genetic Department, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman;1. Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport, QLD, 4215, Australia;2. School of Health Sciences and Social Work, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport, QLD, 4215, Australia;3. Autism Centre of Excellence, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Messines Ridge Road, QLD, 4101, Australia;1. Department of Educational Sciences, College of Education, Majmaah University, Majmaah, 11952, Saudi Arabia;2. Department of Special Education, College of Education, Majmaah University, Majmaah, 11952, Saudi Arabia;1. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China;2. Rehabilitation Center for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Ninth People’s Hospital, Chongqing, China;3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment for Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, China;4. Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, China;1. College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA;2. Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA;3. Harrell Center for the Study of Family Violence, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA |
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| Abstract: | BackgroundThe tendency to maximize is one of the most frequently studied personal traits in choice-making and decision-making. In spite of the large resemblances between the decision behaviour that is characteristic for maximizers and the decision behaviour displayed by individuals with autism, and the considerable overlap in the list of decision problems and decision experiences commonly reported by maximizers and individuals with autism, the question whether individuals with autism are more maximizing in decision-making as compared to neurotypical controls, has remained unexamined in the literature. The paper measures and compares the tendency to maximize, satisfice, and minimize in choice- and decision-making among autistic individuals and age, gender- and education degree-matched neurotypical individuals.MethodThe Decision Making Tendency Inventory measurement scale (Misuraca et al., 2015) is used to measure six types of decision-making tendency: fearful maximizing, resolute maximizing, more ambitious satisficing, less ambitious satisficing, parsimonious minimizing, and indolent minimizing. A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis and comparison of the differences in latent means is performed.ResultsThe results demonstrate that autistic individuals are similar to neurotypical individuals when it comes to having a tendency to satisfice or minimize in decision-making, however, autistic individuals do score higher in terms of adopting a fearful and resolute maximizing tendency than neurotypical individuals.ConclusionsResults suggest that higher maximizing tendency may explain for some of the difficulties experienced by autistic individuals in decision-making |
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| Keywords: | Autism Decision-making Choice-making Decision making tendency inventory Maximizing Satisficing Minimizing |
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