The consistency of decision-making declined when compared to data prior to 2020. New research indicates that the decision-making skills of college students, including those set to graduate this spring, may have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. A compact study carried out by The
researchers revealed that students during the Fall semester of 2020 demonstrated less consistency in their decision-making processes compared to their peers from several preceding years who participated in analogous research.
The research also suggests that the prolonged and wide-ranging uncertainties that came with the global lockdown – far different from an acute stressor imposed in a lab – affected the brain region responsible for problem-solving and decision-making. Buelow and her colleagues were inspired to do the study after they referred to their own foggy thinking as “pandemic brain” in casual conversation.
For this study, researchers compared data from a pre-pandemic sample of 722 undergraduates who had been assessed with the ADMC scale to data from 161 students who participated in one of two assessments during the 2020 fall semester. Despite that inconsistency, the researchers noted that students in 2020 were as confident as pre-pandemic participants that their decisions on“That struck us as interesting, with potential implications for the health and well-being of individuals adequately perceiving risk,” Buelow said.
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