TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weiß, Martin
A1  - Rodrigues, Johannes
A1  - Hewig, Johannes
T1  - Big Five personality factors in relation to coping with contact restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a small sample study
JF  - Social Sciences
N2  - To slow down the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, countries worldwide severely restricted public and social life. In addition to the physical threat posed by the viral disease (COVID-19), the pandemic also has implications for psychological well-being. Using a small sample (N = 51), we examined how Big Five personality traits relate to coping with contact restrictions during three consecutive weeks in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We showed that extraversion was associated with suffering from severe contact restrictions and with benefiting from their relaxation. Individuals with high neuroticism did not show a change in their relatively poor coping with the restrictions over time, whereas conscientious individuals seemed to experience no discomfort and even positive feelings during the period of contact restrictions. Our results support the assumption that neuroticism is a vulnerability factor in relation to psychological wellbeing but also show an influence of contact restrictions on extraverted individuals.
KW  - Big Five
KW  - coping
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - positive affect
KW  - negative affect
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-290556
SN  - 2076-0760
VL  - 11
IS  - 10
ER  -