Who Is Impacted? Personality Predicts Individual Differences in Psychological Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

By Nick Modersitzki, Le Vy Phan, Niclas Kuper, J. Rauthmann. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to changes in people’s private and public lives that are unprecedented in modern history. However, little is known about the differential psychological consequences of restrictions that have been imposed to fight the pandemic. In a large and diverse German sample (N = 1,320), we examined how individual differences in psychological consequences of the pandemic (perceived restrictiveness of government-supported measures, global pandemic-related appraisals, subjective well-being) were associated with a broad set of faceted personality traits (Big Five, Honesty-Humility, Dark Triad). Facets of Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Openness were among the strongest and most important predictors of psychological outcomes, even after controlling for basic sociodemographic variables (gender, age). These findings suggest that psychological consequences of the pandemic depend on personality and thus add to the growing literature on the importance of considering individual differences in crisis situations.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics

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• The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors: Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria (2021, background): “…or Psychopathy, all Blagov (2020), Nowak et al. (2020), and Zajenkowski et al. (2020) found higher levels to be associated with less compliant behavior toward rules and regulations aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19 (but see Modersitzki et al., 2020, for less consistent evidence).”