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Personality and perceived stress during COVID-19 pandemic: Testing the mediating role of perceived threat and efficacy

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Liu, Sam, Lithopoulos, Alexander, Zhang, Chun-Qing, Garcia-Barrera, Mauricio A., Rhodes, Ryan E.·2021·Personality and Individual Differences
DOI 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110351PMC PMC7442020
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Prolonged stress is associated with poor physical and mental health outcomes. Understanding the mediators between personality and stress is critical for developing effective stress management interventions during a pandemic. Our study explored whether perceptions of threat from COVID-19 and efficacy to follow government recommendations for preventing COVID-19 would mediate the relationships between personality traits (e.g., neuroticism, conscientiousness-goal-striving, extroversion-activity and sociability) and perceived stress. In an online survey of a representative sample of Canadian adults (n = 1055), we 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. Perceived threat and efficacy significantly mediated the relationship between neuroticism and stress, which suggested that individuals with higher neuroticism experienced higher levels of stress due to higher levels of perceived threat and lower levels of efficacy. Perceived threat did not mediate the relationship between extroverts and stress, which suggested that the source of stress may stem from elsewhere (e.g., inability to socialize). Our findings highlighted that personality traits could be an important factor in identifying stress-prone individuals during a pandemic and that stress management interventions need to be personality specific.

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Authors
Liu, S., Lithopoulos, A., Zhang, C.-Q., Garcia-Barrera, M. A., & Rhodes, R. E.
Affiliations
  • University of Victoria (CA)
  • Hong Kong Baptist University (HK)
Corresponding author
Liu, Sam
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Venue
Personality and Individual Differences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-01
Volume
168
Pages
110351
ISSN
0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.paid.2020.110351
PMC
PMC7442020
OpenAlex
W3080173431
Cited by
321
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 100 · 2021: 78
FWCI
24.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
University of Victoria
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Keywords
COVID-19 pandemic, perceived stress, personality traits, neuroticism, extraversion, threat perception, perceived efficacy, mediating role, stress management interventions, social isolation

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