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- The COVID-19 outbreak changed how people live, causing stress and loneliness for many due to rules like social distancing and quarantine.
- Researchers studied over 99,000 people from 41 countries to see how different personality traits affected stress and loneliness during the pandemic.
- They found that certain traits, especially neuroticism, made people more likely to feel stressed and lonely, which can help identify those who may need extra support.
Article Abstract
The rapid outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected citizens' daily lives in an unprecedented way. To curb the spread of the pandemic, governments have taken numerous measures such as social distancing and quarantine, which may be associated with psychological consequences, namely stress and loneliness globally. To understand differential associations of personality traits with psychological consequences of COVID-19, we utilize data from a sample of 99,217 individuals from 41 countries collected as part of the COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey. Data were analyzed using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel regression models. Findings showed that while some of the associations were rather weak, Big Five personality traits were significantly associated with perceived stress and loneliness during the pandemic. Our study illustrates that neuroticism especially can be a vulnerability factor for stress and loneliness in times of crisis and can contribute to detection of at-risk individuals and optimization of psychological treatments during or after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8786633 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111531 | DOI Listing |
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