decision-making

Decision-making skills, or the ability to choose between two or more courses of action, relate to “one of the basic cognitive processes of human behaviour by which a preferred option, or a course of action, is chosen from among a set of alternatives based on certain criteria” (Wang, 2007). Decision-making is used by all individuals on a daily basis, as they are regularly faced with situations in which they have to make a judgement about how best to proceed, and also when it is most appropriate to do so. Notably, decision-making has consequences on all individuals’ wellbeing through the effects of the choices they make (WHO, 1997).