Previous research examining the associations between decision‐making styles and mental health has neglected to look at the configurations of styles. The study identifies mutually exclusive groups of people according to their combination of the five decision‐making styles and examines the differences between them in mental health‐related variables in two studies. In Study 1, decision‐making styles, mental health indicators (well‐being, depression, stress) and socio‐psychological protective factors (resilience, optimism, social support) were examined in university students in two rounds 1 year apart. A cluster analysis revealed three distinct decision profiles—independent/nonintuitive, avoidant/spontaneous and rational/nonavoidant. The best values of mental health‐related variables were found in the rational/nonavoidant profile and the most negative values in the avoidant/spontaneous profile. The decision‐making styles were stable after 1 year although they were not able to explain changes in mental health‐related variables. Study 2 identified three similar clusters in a more general sample—spontaneous/irrational, dependent/avoidant and rational/nonavoidant—with the lowest level of psychological distress symptoms in the rational/nonavoidant cluster. The study highlights the usefulness of combinations of decision‐making styles with regard to mental health as well as noting their specificity according to sample characteristics.

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决策风格和心理健康：通过聚类以人为本的方法

先前研究决策风格与心理健康之间关系的研究忽略了关注风格的配置。该研究根据五种决策方式的组合来识别互斥的人群，并在两项研究中检验了他们在心理健康相关变量方面的差异。在研究1中，在大学生中，每隔一年进行了两轮检查，研究了决策风格，心理健康指标（幸福感，抑郁，压力）和社会心理保护因素（韧性，乐观主义，社会支持）。聚类分析揭示了三个不同的决策特征-独立/非直觉，回避/自发和理性/非回避。与心理健康相关的变量的最佳值出现在有理/非回避特征中，而最大负值出现在回避/自发性特征中。决策风格在一年后仍保持稳定，尽管它们无法解释与心理健康相关的变量的变化。研究2在更一般的样本中确定了三个相似的集群-自发/非理性，依存/回避和理性/非回避-在理性/非回避集群中心理困扰症状水平最低。这项研究强调了决策方式组合在心理健康方面的有用性，并根据样本特征指出了它们的特殊性。决策风格在一年后仍保持稳定，尽管它们无法解释与心理健康相关的变量的变化。研究2在更一般的样本中确定了三个相似的集群-自发/非理性，依存/回避和理性/非回避-在理性/非回避集群中心理困扰症状水平最低。该研究强调了决策方式组合在心理健康方面的有用性，并根据样本特征指出了它们的特殊性。决策风格在一年后仍保持稳定，尽管它们无法解释与心理健康相关的变量的变化。研究2在更一般的样本中确定了三个相似的集群-自发/非理性，依存/回避和理性/非回避-在理性/非回避集群中心理困扰症状水平最低。该研究强调了决策方式组合在心理健康方面的有用性，并根据样本特征指出了它们的特殊性。