Big Five personality factors in relation to coping with contact restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a small sample study
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-290556
- 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 andTo 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.…
Author: | Martin Weiß, Johannes Rodrigues, Johannes Hewig |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-290556 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät / Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie |
Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie | |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Social Sciences |
ISSN: | 2076-0760 |
Year of Completion: | 2022 |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 10 |
Article Number: | 466 |
Source: | Social Sciences (2022) 11:10, 466. doi:10.3390/socsci11100466 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11100466 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Tag: | Big Five; COVID-19; coping; negative affect; positive affect |
Release Date: | 2023/04/20 |
Date of first Publication: | 2022/10/11 |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds / Förderzeitraum 2022 | |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |