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Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic()
This study examined the Big Five personality traits as predictors of individual differences and changes in the perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany between early April 2020 and early September 2020. This timeframe includes the first national “lockdown,” the period of “easing”...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7843115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33531723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110694 |
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description | This study examined the Big Five personality traits as predictors of individual differences and changes in the perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany between early April 2020 and early September 2020. This timeframe includes the first national “lockdown,” the period of “easing” of restrictions, and the summer vacation period. Data were collected from n = 588 full-time employees, who provided baseline data on their personality traits in early December 2019, and then later provided data on perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic at five time points, spanning six months. Consistent with expectations based on event and transition theories, results showed that, on average, perceived stressfulness declined between early April 2020 and early September 2020. Moreover, this effect was stronger between early April 2020 and early July 2020. Hypotheses based on the differential reactivity model of personality and stress were partially supported. Emotional stability was associated with lower, and extraversion associated with higher, average levels of perceived stressfulness. Finally, extraversion was associated with increases (i.e., positive trajectories) in perceived stressfulness between early April 2020 and early July 2020 and decreases (i.e., negative trajectories) in perceived stressfulness between early July 2020 and early September 2020. |
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spelling | pubmed-78431152021-01-29 Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic() Zacher, Hannes Rudolph, Cort W. Pers Individ Dif Article This study examined the Big Five personality traits as predictors of individual differences and changes in the perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany between early April 2020 and early September 2020. This timeframe includes the first national “lockdown,” the period of “easing” of restrictions, and the summer vacation period. Data were collected from n = 588 full-time employees, who provided baseline data on their personality traits in early December 2019, and then later provided data on perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic at five time points, spanning six months. Consistent with expectations based on event and transition theories, results showed that, on average, perceived stressfulness declined between early April 2020 and early September 2020. Moreover, this effect was stronger between early April 2020 and early July 2020. Hypotheses based on the differential reactivity model of personality and stress were partially supported. Emotional stability was associated with lower, and extraversion associated with higher, average levels of perceived stressfulness. Finally, extraversion was associated with increases (i.e., positive trajectories) in perceived stressfulness between early April 2020 and early July 2020 and decreases (i.e., negative trajectories) in perceived stressfulness between early July 2020 and early September 2020. Elsevier Ltd. 2021-06 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7843115/ /pubmed/33531723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110694 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Zacher, Hannes Rudolph, Cort W. Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic() |
title | Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic() |
title_full | Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic() |
title_fullStr | Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic() |
title_full_unstemmed | Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic() |
title_short | Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic() |
title_sort | big five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the covid-19 pandemic() |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7843115/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33531723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110694 |
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