Decision Making Composite
Lower score
May not use emotional information effectively.
Emotions may hinder decision making.
May fall victim to rash behaviors/decision.
Could struggle to remain objective.
May be derailed or biased by emotions
Higher scores
Leverages emotional information to make decisions.
Seeks and maintains high-caliber relationship.
Finds good ways of arriving at a solution
Grounded; able to objectively size up a situation.
Can separate emotion-driven assumptions from fact.
Resists or delays impulses to act; methodical.
Feeling competent, calm and grounded in one’s ability to use emotional information to make decisions renders one better equipped to deal with everyday stressors, without being derailed by emotions.