Exploration of Personality Factors and their Effects on People’s Decision Making of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Praheli Dhar Chowdhuri and Suman Meyur

EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2018, vol. 5, issue 2(4), 120-125

Abstract: Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM) often promoted and utilized as a non-integral part of conventional medicine has diverse modalities and variegated application. To choose among the alternatives in a comparable situation the decision process is complex and dependent on many factors including social, cognitive component and personality traits. This study is aimed to explore whether the factors affecting the choice of treatment modality between CAM and Conventional Medicine has any underlying effects of personality of the decision makers, as per Big 5 personality traits. The study focuses on the decision making process behind the choice of therapy so that a valid decision path can be formulated. It was found that Personality has an important role in decision making as three underlying Personality Factors (Neuroticism, Conscientiousness and Extraversion) are separately identified. Extraversion has positive (B = 0.693, p

Keywords: Big 5 personality traits; Treatment decision making; CAM; Health human resource; Path analysis; Complimentary and alternative medicine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.18843/ijms/v5i2(4)/13

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