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Personality, gender, and age resilience to the mental health effects of COVID-19

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Staneva, Anita, Carmignani, Fabrizio, Rohde, Nicholas·2022·Social Science & Medicine

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Rationale Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on different population cohorts and which personality traits affected individual's coping responses can help identify strategies to promote self-directed behaviours, thereby enhancing and maintaining individual's mental well-being.Objective Using longitudinal data for the UK, we examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals' mental well-being, focusing on age, gender, and personality traits as possible modifiers.Methods We explore the longitudinal nature of the data using individual fixed effects models, which implicitly control for unobserved time-invariant individual-level characteristics. Our sample is an unbalanced panel consisting of 373,555 person-years observations, observed from 2009 until June 2020.Results The negative impacts of the first months of the pandemic period are found to be larger for young adults (aged 16-25 years) and vary by personality traits. The increase in psychological distress symptoms is more pronounced for individuals who score higher in neuroticism, extroversion, and openness to experience. Indeed, for introverted young people, recent events may have actually brought a sense of calm. Other findings indicate that worsening in the psychological distress level occurs alongside with increased feelings of loneliness.Conclusions Our findings support the theoretical knowledge that different people have different psychological and behaviour responses and personality concepts can be used when studying individual's adaptive behaviour in critical situations such as COVID-19. Our results indicate the necessity of public health programmes to assist distressed young individuals.

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  • Young adults were the most at risk of psychological distress during the pandemic in several countries.

    “several studies showed that young adults were the most at risk of psychological distress in different countries such as India, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Iran, and Belgium (e.g., [13,16,30,31]).”

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Authors
Staneva, A., Carmignani, F., & Rohde, N.
Affiliations
Griffith University (AU)
Corresponding author
Staneva, Anita
Venue
Social Science & Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2022-05
Volume
301
Pages
114884
ISSN
0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4220967855
Cited by
50
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 8
FWCI
10.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion, other-oa)
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, psychological well-being, psychological distress, personality traits, Big Five personality traits, gender differences, age differences, young adults, loneliness, resilience, coping, neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, public health interventions
MeSH terms
COVID-19, Adolescent, Humans, Loneliness, Mental Health, Personality, Young Adult, Pandemics

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