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The Influence of Demographics and Personality on COVID-19 Coping in Young Adults

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Volk, Anthony A., Brazil, Kristopher J., Franklin-Luther, Prarthana, Dane, Andrew V., Vaillancourt, Tracy·2021·Personality and Individual Differences
DOI 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110398PMC PMC7492069
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented effect on human behavior and well-being. Demographic factors and personality traits have been shown to independently influence whether individuals adopt adaptive or maladaptive coping responses. However, to date, researchers have not considered how demographics and personality could interact to influence COVID-19 coping responses. In a sample of 516 North American young adults, we found direct links from two demographic factors (i.e., income and having children) and from multiple personality traits (as captured by the HEXACO model) to adaptive and maladaptive COVID-19 coping responses. We also found that personality indirectly linked a broader range of demographic factors (income, age, gender, having children) with COVID-19 coping responses. We encourage future research on COVID-19 coping responses to consider not just the individual contributions of demographics and personality, but their interdependent influence on whether individuals adopt more or less adaptive COVID-19 pandemic coping responses.

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  • Each demographic group showed a different impact of the pandemic based on economic, social, professional, family, and routine aspects.

    “Although those dispositional and behavioral dimensions were shared by the entire population, each demographic group showed a different impact of the pandemic based on economic, social, professional, family, and routine aspects [30,31,32,33,34,35].”

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    The Introduction (Demographics and COVID-19 coping stressors; page unavailable) describes how financial resources, family size, work schedules, and gender may shape pandemic stressors and coping. The Discussion (Direct demographic paths; page unavailable) reports significant direct links for only two demographic factors—income and number of children. The paper therefore supports demographic differences in some responses, but not the stronger claim that each group showed a different impact across all the listed aspects, including routine. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Volk, A. A., Brazil, K. J., Franklin-Luther, P., Dane, A. V., & Vaillancourt, T.
Affiliations
  • Brock University (CA)
  • University of Ottawa (CA)
Corresponding author
Volk, Anthony A.
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Venue
Personality and Individual Differences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-01
Volume
168
Pages
110398
ISSN
0191-8869 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.paid.2020.110398
PMC
PMC7492069
OpenAlex
W3084882955
Cited by
120
References
66
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 2
FWCI
9.11
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Locations
  • Personality and Individual Differences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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
young adults, HEXACO personality, demographic factors, income, having children, adaptive coping, maladaptive coping, gender differences, age differences

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