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Do you ever have problems making decisions? Have you ever consulted TV programs or sought advice from strangers to resolve your troubles? These days, the flood of options in front of us makes it harder for people to make decisions. As a result, many TV programs and other services are coming up that help give advice to people who have trouble making decisions.

Exactly how many people lack confidence in their decision making ability? To know the answer to this question, the Dankook Herald (DKH) conducted a survey of 141 Dankookian. The DKH asked whether they commonly found difficulty in making choices, and whether or not they sought advice from people regularly. 44.7% of respondents expressed having troubles regularly with decision-making, and said they often sought advice from other people. 48.2% said they only sometimes felt it was hard to make a decision, but they did not seek any advice from people. Instead, they made the decision for themselves. Only 7.1% of respondents replied that they were free from the headache of hesitation.

Have these indecisive people ever admitted they have trouble choosing on their own? 50.7% of respondents said no while 49.3% replied yes. This means that nearly half of our respondents have admitted the trouble they go through. Some
respondents said they seek advice to get the opinions of others and this helps them make a decision.

Nowadays there are many programs that offer advice to people when they need to make an important decision, but why are these services so popular? The DKH learned that they have some advantages. First, users get comfort from people who listen to their story and offer them help. Even though they are consulting with a person they have never met, they gain empathy from them, and are therefore completely at ease with talking to them.

Next, people worry about what others think about them. Therefore, people like to get advice from others anonymously, so that they do not need to worry about how they are viewed by others. They feel better talking about their troubles with strangers and listening to a variety of opinions about their situations.

Lastly, we are living in a society with a superabundant amount of information, so people find it hard to make choices. We sometimes wonder how others make decisions or think about something, because we can never really have all the
information.

The DKH interviewed Prof. Lim Myeong-ho (Dept. of Psychology, College of Public Administration and Social Welfare) to investigate this problem more. Prof. Lim said that the main reason people can’t decide on their own is because they lack self-esteem. “People have achieved material affluence today, more so than in the past. However, people haven’t achieved much psychological wealth that would come from compliments and the simple encouragement from others. Moreover, the network that we established in the past is incomparable to that of the one we built today. We built a lot of our network out of social media, and social media enables us to easily interact with a lot of people,” he said.

People are seen to have a selecting disorder when they find it hard to make choices. We asked Prof. Lim to define and explain the symptoms of a selecting disorder. He explained, “In fact, there’s no disorder called selecting disorder. There are anxiety disorders and personality disorders but no selecting disorder. In fact, a person who has trouble making decisions is quite similar to someone with a storage obsession, so it is more of a form of obsession. I think the term selecting disorder doesn’t exist in reality, but it’s an adequate description of a choice disorder rather than anxiety disorder or personality disorder.”

Lastly, Prof. Lim explained how to deal with decision making difficulties. He said, “A deficiency in self-esteem leads to difficulties with making decisions. To recover your selfesteem, you need to strengthen your mental health. One’s mental health can be improved through compliments and encouragement. These compliments and this encouragement must come from home and school. In other words, not only through personal effort, but through social effort too.”

In sum, many people have difficulties making decisions. However, can we justify the difficulty by saying they have a selecting disorder? The truth is, we’re hiding behind the problem when we label it a disorder. Of course we feel anxiety when we opt for an opinion that’s quite different from that of others, but we need to stand firm and feel free to express our own ideas when we have to. Not saying what you feel deep inside your heart will eventually destroy your own identity and make you rely far too much on the ideas of others.


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