Department of Psychology, West Virginia University.
RAND Corporation.
Psychol Aging. 2023 May;38(3):167-173. doi: 10.1037/pag0000736. Epub 2023 Mar 13.
Decision-making often occurs in a social context but is typically studied as if it were an individualistic process. In the present study, we investigated the relationships between age, perceived decision-making ability, and self-rated health with preferences for social decision-making, or making decisions with others. Adults ( = 1,075; ages 18-93) from an U.S. online national panel reported their preferences for social decision-making, perceived changes in decision-making ability over time, perceived decision-making ability compared to age peers, and self-rated health. We report on three key findings. First, older age was associated with being less likely to prefer social decision-making. Second, older age was associated with perceiving one's ability to have changed for the worse over time. Third, social decision-making preferences were associated both with older age and perceiving one's ability to make decisions was worse than age peers. Additionally, there was a significant cubic function of age, such that older age was associated with lesser preferences for social decision-making until around age 50. Preferences then increased slightly with age until about age 60, after which older age was once again associated with lesser preferences for social decision-making. Together, our findings suggest that compensating for perceived lack of competence compared to other people one's age may motivate preferences for social decision-making across the life span. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
决策通常发生在社会环境中，但通常被视为一个个体化的过程进行研究。在本研究中，我们调查了年龄、感知决策能力和自评健康状况与社会决策偏好（即与他人共同做出决策）之间的关系。来自美国在线全国小组的成年人（n = 1075；年龄 18-93 岁）报告了他们对社会决策的偏好、感知到的决策能力随时间的变化、与年龄相比较的感知决策能力以及自评健康状况。我们报告了三个关键发现。首先，年龄越大，越不可能偏好社会决策。其次，年龄越大，越有可能认为自己的能力随时间恶化。第三，社会决策偏好与年龄较大和感知自己的决策能力不如年龄相若的人有关。此外，年龄呈显著三次函数关系，即年龄越大，对社会决策的偏好越低，直到 50 岁左右。然后，偏好会随着年龄的增长略有增加，直到 60 岁左右，之后年龄越大，对社会决策的偏好越低。综上所述，我们的研究结果表明，与年龄相若的其他人相比，感知到的能力不足可能会促使人们在整个生命周期中更倾向于进行社会决策。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2023 APA，保留所有权利）。
