TY - JOUR

T1 - The Role of Personality in COVID-19-Related Perceptions, Evaluations, and Behaviors

T2 - Findings Across Five Samples, Nine Traits, and 17 Criteria

AU - Zettler, Ingo

AU - Schild, Christoph

AU - Lilleholt, Lau

AU - Kroencke, Lara

AU - Utesch, Till

AU - Moshagen, Morten

AU - Böhm, Robert

AU - Back, Mitja D.

AU - Geukes, Katharina

N1 - Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Data collection for this article was funded by grants from the Carlsberg Foundation (CF16-0444) and the Independent Research Fund Denmark (7024-00057B) to the first author as well as by grants from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and the Lundbeck Foundation to the first and seventh author.

PY - 2022/1

Y1 - 2022/1

N2 - Individuals and institutions around the world have been affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Herein, we investigate the role of basic (Big Five and HEXACO) and specific (Dark Factor of Personality, Narcissistic Rivalry, and Narcissistic Admiration) personality traits for 17 criteria related to COVID-19, grouped into (i) personal perceptions in terms of risks and worries about the disease, (ii) behavioral adjustments in terms of following health recommendations and hoarding, and (iii) societal evaluations in terms of the appropriateness of different measures and feelings of social cohesion. (Internal) Meta-analytic results across five samples from two countries (overall N = 19,718) show—next to gender and age effects—the importance of several traits, including Emotionality/Neuroticism for personal perceptions and anti- or prosocial traits for behavior in line with health recommendations. The investigation highlights the importance of individual differences in uncertain and changing situations in general and during the COVID-19 pandemic in particular.

AB - Individuals and institutions around the world have been affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Herein, we investigate the role of basic (Big Five and HEXACO) and specific (Dark Factor of Personality, Narcissistic Rivalry, and Narcissistic Admiration) personality traits for 17 criteria related to COVID-19, grouped into (i) personal perceptions in terms of risks and worries about the disease, (ii) behavioral adjustments in terms of following health recommendations and hoarding, and (iii) societal evaluations in terms of the appropriateness of different measures and feelings of social cohesion. (Internal) Meta-analytic results across five samples from two countries (overall N = 19,718) show—next to gender and age effects—the importance of several traits, including Emotionality/Neuroticism for personal perceptions and anti- or prosocial traits for behavior in line with health recommendations. The investigation highlights the importance of individual differences in uncertain and changing situations in general and during the COVID-19 pandemic in particular.

KW - Big Five

KW - COVID-19

KW - dark factor of personality

KW - HEXACO

KW - narcissism

KW - personality

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103645812&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/19485506211001680

DO - 10.1177/19485506211001680

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85103645812

VL - 13

SP - 299

EP - 310

JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science

JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science

SN - 1948-5506

IS - 1

ER -