Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
PLoS One. 2021 May 19;16(5):e0251097. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251097. eCollection 2021.
The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic was first detected in China in December 2019 and spread to other countries fast. Some studies have found that COVID-19 pandemic has had adverse mental health consequences. Individual differences such as personality could contribute to people's behaviors during a pandemic. In the current study, we examine how personality traits of neuroticism and extroversion (using the Five-Factor Model as our framework) are related to the mental health of Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from an online survey with 1096 responses, this study performed multiple regression analysis to explore how personality traits of neuroticism and extroversion predict the effects of COVID-19 on the mental health of Canadians. The results showed that personality traits of neuroticism and extroversion are associated with the current mental health of Canadians during COVID-19 pandemic, with extroversion positively related to mental health and neuroticism negatively related to it. Results contribute to the management of individual responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and could help public health services provide personality-appropriate mental health services during this pandemic.
新型冠状病毒病(COVID-19)疫情于 2019 年 12 月在中国首次发现,并迅速传播到其他国家。一些研究发现,COVID-19 大流行对心理健康产生了不利影响。个性等个体差异可能会影响人们在大流行期间的行为。在当前的研究中,我们研究了神经质和外向性(使用五因素模型作为框架)等人格特质如何与 COVID-19 大流行期间加拿大民众的心理健康有关。本研究使用来自一项包含 1096 个回复的在线调查的数据,采用多元回归分析来探讨神经质和外向性等人格特质如何预测 COVID-19 对加拿大民众心理健康的影响。结果表明,神经质和外向性等人格特质与 COVID-19 大流行期间加拿大民众的当前心理健康状况有关,外向性与心理健康呈正相关,神经质与心理健康呈负相关。结果有助于管理个人对 COVID-19 大流行的反应,并有助于公共卫生服务在大流行期间提供适合个性的心理健康服务。