A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania (USA) has discovered why neurotic people are so prone to avoid making decisions .
Neurotic people, compared to "emotionally stable" people, experience clinical depression, guilt, and anger much more frequently and severely. They are highly susceptible to phobias and other anxiety disorders, and trivial frustrations can turn into a hopeless and intimidating situation for them .
To examine the importance of making important decisions in neurotic people, researchers conducted a study with people with this disorder, finding that they did not consider having to decide something important as something positive, but quite the opposite .
The researchers explain in their study published in the Journal of Personality , that anxiety is the main responsible for neurotic people seeing decision-making as something negative and therefore, they remain "blocked" in such situations.
"People who are interested in reducing the harmful consequences of neuroticism in their own lives should think about how their attitudes toward action (and not inaction) may be affecting their behavior," the study authors state.
