Decision Making in Emergency Situations

TITLE
Exploring the dispositional factors (internal locus of control, self-efficacy, independent and interdependent self-construals) and the demographic factors (age and gender) and their predicted effect on social decision and independent decision making in emergency situations in response to fire cues. Also investigating the gender and age differences on dispositional factors and the individual and social decision making models.

ABSTRACT
The aims of the current study is to investigate decision-making in building fires and look at the effects (if any) of the presence of others upon response (social decision making). Furthermore, the study investigated significant predictors of decision making in dispositional factors (such as internal locus of control, self-efficacy and independent and interdependent self-construals), along with demographic factors (such as age and gender). The data was used to develop a decision making model in social decisions in emergency situations. The 290 ...