Analyzing the Influence of Personal Construction of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the Formation and Modeling of the Nuclear Case Decision Making in George Kelly's Theory

Abstract

recognition his behavior, action and decision making. In fact, although many factors influence a leader's understanding and decision-making process, personal construction undoubtedly have a unique role in the process of understanding, value, and beliefs. Therefore, understanding the representation of the Iranian nuclear case and the decision-making model of this representation would be incomplete without recognizing the personality structure of the leaders in foreign policy. Based on this same issue, the main focus of this article is to identify the influence of Ahmadinejad's personality construction on the path of nuclear confrontation with the West as the opposite. According to this, the question of this article is that, how did Ahmadinejad's personal construction influences the formation and then influences the modeling of the nuclear case? Qualitative research findings in the framework of George Kelly's theory and then applying these findings to the quantitative test, shows that the role of Ahmadinejad's personal construction, while substantially influencing the nuclear case, represents it as a security-identity issue and, accordingly, forms the psychological-value decision based on five principles of construction, dichotomy, choice, modulation, and sociality served as the model of choice. The research method is qualitative and statistical, descriptive and survey (questionnaire).

Keywords

• nuclear case
• representation
• decision model
• personal construct
• mahmoud ahmadinejad