Showing papers in "Personality and Individual Differences in 2021"

TL;DR: The role of perceived risk of COVID-19 (i.e., perceived likelihood of infection, perceived disease severity, and disease-related worry) and perceived safety of a prospective vaccine against COvid-19 in predicting intentions to accept a CO VID-19 vaccine is investigated.

TL;DR: The most vulnerable to loneliness were younger men living in individualistic cultures and age, gender, and culture interacted to predict loneliness, although those interactions did not qualify the main effects, and simply accentuated them.

TL;DR: Results confirmed that this influence via future anxiety is moderated by resilience, a personality trait that enables individuals to cope better with stressful or traumatic events, and indicates interventions that may be carried out to minimize the pandemic's negative psychological consequences.

TL;DR: It is found that higher neuroticism and extroversion were associated with higher levels of stress during the Pandemic and a greater increase in stress levels compared to levels before the pandemic, and that stress management interventions need to be personality specific.

TL;DR: It is implied that prosocial appeals have the potential to be associated with greater compliance if they evoke highly positive emotional responses.

TL;DR: It is suggested that positivity is an important aspect of developing strength-based preventions and interventions aiming to reduce psychological distress and improve happiness.

TL;DR: It is found that liberals (compared to conservatives) perceive higher risk, place less trust in politicians to handle the pandemic, are more trusting of medical experts such as the WHO, and are more critical of the government response.

TL;DR: Considering COVID-19 related worries and resilience as potential moderators of the loneliness-sleep problems link may facilitate detection of and intervention for older adults vulnerable to aversive results in the context of CO VID-19.

TL;DR: Knowing which attitudes may be associated with the endorsement of specific conspiracy theories can contribute to counteracting their negative consequences during crises, demonstrating the importance of considering the content of various conspiracy theories when studying their social effects and potential causes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the influences of fear and anxiety of covid-19 pandemic on life satisfaction, and examined the mediating roles of psychological distress and sleep disturbance in this linkage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the association between the resilience of the adults affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and Covid19 fear, meaning in life, life satisfaction, intolerance of uncertainty, hope gender, psychological trauma history and the presence of the individuals diagnosed with the pandemic around.

TL;DR: The protective role of trait emotional intelligence during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak was mainly associated with experiencing negative emotions less intensely, but not less frequently, while negatively with baseline negative affect and negative intensity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the individual dispositions that influence self-regulated online learning during the coronavirus lockdown and found that procrastination is negatively related to six sub-constructs of self-organized online learning: task strategy, mood adjustment, self-evaluation, environmental structure, time management, and help-seeking.

TL;DR: Although gender does not relate to whether a person wears a face mask, it does relate to face mask perceptions, and men were more likely to perceive face masks as infringing on their independence, whereas women were morelikely to perceiveface masks as uncomfortable.

TL;DR: Investigation of different factors associated with coronavirus-related anxiety during the COVID-19 outbreak in Poland revealed that anxiety in response to the CO VID-19 was common in the sample and major predictors of higher anxiety related to the pandemic outbreak included demographic factors.

TL;DR: It is suggested that COVID-19-related stress and anxiety may shape body image outcomes under conditions of physical and social distancing.

TL;DR: It is indicated that antisocial traits, especially lower levels of empathy and higher levels of Callousness, Deceitfulness, and Risk-taking, are directly associated with lower compliance with containment measures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the influence of demographics and personality traits on adaptive and maladaptive coping responses in the COVID-19 pandemic in North American young adults and found that personality indirectly linked a broader range of demographic factors (income, age, gender, having children) with coping responses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of psychological traits in social distancing compliance and mask-wearing behavior and attitude was examined in the United States, while the number of COVID-19 cases continue to increase.

TL;DR: It is suggested how public communication and policy making could develop targeted programs to mitigate food waste issues and individuals' gender and country of residence moderate such phenomenon, with the effect being more pronounced among Indian (rather than American) women.

TL;DR: The results of the current study underline the positive effects of online social comparison on the reduction of psychological distress during the COVID-19 quarantine.

TL;DR: Investigation of the relationship between self-compassion and life-satisfaction among Chinese self-quarantined residents during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that self-Compassion was positively linked with life-Satisfaction, and intervention focus on self- Compassion could increaseLife-s Satisfaction in self- quarantined people during theCOVID- 19, and self- compassion may contribute to life- satisfaction via positive coping only in the male.

TL;DR: This paper explored the moral foundations underlying people's compliance with the three behaviors and found that caring and fairness concerns predict complying with all behaviors, while sanctity concerns only predict compliance with wearing face masks and social distancing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty and fear of COVID-19 in the relationship between self-compassion and well-being was examined using bootstrapping.

TL;DR: This article found that U.S. conservatives were less concerned than liberals with the COVID-19 pandemic, and that experiential factors provided a boundary condition for the perceived threat relationship.

TL;DR: The authors investigated individual susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs and the mediating role of Covid-19 related conspiracy beliefs on links between personality and intentional dissemination of conspiracy theories and willingness to obtain a Covid19 vaccine.

TL;DR: Examination of the relationships of personality traits and trait emotional intelligence (EI) with compassion and self-compassion in samples of Italian workers revealed that trait EI explained variance beyond that accounted for by personality traits in relation to both compassion andSelf-Compassion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the associations of age, gender, and personality with the fear of missing out on exciting or interesting events and found no gender differences in experiencing FoMO.

TL;DR: The study extends the application of the COR theory to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and offers important insights that will enable professionals to assess the role of proactive coping and future time orientation in their productivity evaluations of working tasks and to design appropriate training sessions.