Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy
The literature indicates that adolescents with delinquent behavior have greater difficulty making rational decisions and show lower emotional intelligence and empathy. Decision-making is a set of complex processes associated with neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors which help r...
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2021-12-01
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| author | Arcadio de Jesús Cardona-Isaza Saray Velert Jiménez Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla |
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| description | The literature indicates that adolescents with delinquent behavior have greater difficulty making rational decisions and show lower emotional intelligence and empathy. Decision-making is a set of complex processes associated with neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors which help regulate and guide behavior, which could be influenced by emotional intelligence and empathy. A comparative, correlational, and predictive study was conducted to analyze relationships and influence of emotional intelligence and empathy in decision-making styles in adolescent offenders and non-offenders. 808 Colombian adolescents between 14 and 18 years of age participated (50% offenders). The results indicated significant differences in emotional attention, perspective taking, fantasy, empathic concern, vigilance, and hypervigilance. Emotional repair and perspective taking were identified as favoring rational decision-making. Additionally, emotional attention and personal distress were found to influence hypervigilance, buck-passing, and procrastination. The importance of intervening in emotional intelligence and empathy to favor decision-making styles in adolescents is discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b7daab629f4542bebe9300ad7b1b6ea82022-12-21T19:39:34ZengColegio Oficial de Psicólogos de MadridAnuario de Psicología Jurídica1133-07402174-05422021-12-01321516010.5093/apj2021a2311320559Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and EmpathyArcadio de Jesús Cardona-Isaza0Saray Velert Jiménez1Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla2University of Valencia, Valencia , Spain, University of Valencia, SpainUniversity of Valencia, Valencia , Spain, University of Valencia, SpainUniversity of Valencia, Valencia , Spain, University of Valencia, SpainThe literature indicates that adolescents with delinquent behavior have greater difficulty making rational decisions and show lower emotional intelligence and empathy. Decision-making is a set of complex processes associated with neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors which help regulate and guide behavior, which could be influenced by emotional intelligence and empathy. A comparative, correlational, and predictive study was conducted to analyze relationships and influence of emotional intelligence and empathy in decision-making styles in adolescent offenders and non-offenders. 808 Colombian adolescents between 14 and 18 years of age participated (50% offenders). The results indicated significant differences in emotional attention, perspective taking, fantasy, empathic concern, vigilance, and hypervigilance. Emotional repair and perspective taking were identified as favoring rational decision-making. Additionally, emotional attention and personal distress were found to influence hypervigilance, buck-passing, and procrastination. The importance of intervening in emotional intelligence and empathy to favor decision-making styles in adolescents is discussed. https://journals.copmadrid.org/apj/art/apj2021a23 juvenile offendersdecision-makingemotional intelligenceempathy |
| spellingShingle | Arcadio de Jesús Cardona-Isaza Saray Velert Jiménez Inmaculada Montoya-Castilla Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy Anuario de Psicología Jurídica juvenile offenders decision-making emotional intelligence empathy |
| title | Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy |
| title_full | Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy |
| title_fullStr | Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy |
| title_short | Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy |
| title_sort | decision making styles in adolescent offenders and non offenders effects of emotional intelligence and empathy |
| topic | juvenile offenders decision-making emotional intelligence empathy |
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https://journals.copmadrid.org/apj/art/apj2021a23
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