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  • Modern organizations present complex challenges, potentially leading to worker overload.
  • Understanding the impact of mental workload on complex task performance is crucial in professional environments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically investigate the relationship between decision-making quality and both expected and experienced mental workload.
  • To analyze how perceived and actual mental workload influence professional decision-making outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • An ex post facto prospective study was conducted with 176 higher education professionals.
  • Mental workload was assessed using the NASA-Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) for both expected (Pre-Task WL) and real (Post-Task WL) conditions.
  • Decision-making quality was measured using the Decision-Making Questionnaire, and the difference between expected and real workload (Differential WL) was calculated.

Main Results:

  • A general inverted U-shaped relationship was observed between expected mental workload and decision-making quality.
  • No significant relationship was found between actual (Post-Task WL) mental workload and decision-making quality.
  • Individuals whose expected workload closely matched their actual workload exhibited poorer decision-making quality compared to those with high or low workload differences.

Conclusions:

  • The interplay between mental workload and decision-making is complex and exhibits nonlinear patterns.
  • Expected mental workload appears to be a more critical factor than actual workload in influencing decision quality.