Monteiro Renan P, Coelho Gabriel Lins de Holanda, Hanel Paul H P, Vilar Roosevelt, Gouveia Valdiney Veloso, Medeiros Emerson Diogenes de
Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
University College Cork, Ireland.
Pers Individ Dif. 2022 Feb;185:111247. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111247. Epub 2021 Sep 13.
Brazil is one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., 563,470 deaths until August 9th, 2021). Since the Brazilian government is partly struggling and partly unwilling to control the pandemic, staying healthy falls almost exclusively to the population. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the predictive role of personality traits to explain the willingness to combat the COVID-19 virus. In the present study ( = 496), we investigated the Dark Pentad traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, and spitefulness. Our findings revealed that the first four traits were consistently negatively associated with various measures that indicate whether the pandemic is taken seriously, such as the perceived severity of COVID-19 and intentions to act against COVID-19. Structural equation modeling further showed that general COVID-19 worry mediated the link between the Dark Pentad and adaptive and maladaptive responses. Our results indicate that all dark traits are associated with unsocial behaviors, but their relative importance varies depending on the outcome variable.
巴西是新冠疫情的中心之一（即截至2021年8月9日有563470人死亡）。由于巴西政府在一定程度上既在抗疫方面力不从心，又不愿管控疫情，保持健康几乎完全要靠民众自己。因此，了解人格特质在解释抗击新冠病毒意愿方面的预测作用至关重要。在本研究（N = 496）中，我们调查了黑暗人格五因素特质：马基雅维利主义、自恋、精神病态、施虐倾向和恶意。我们的研究结果显示，前四种特质与各种表明是否认真对待疫情的指标始终呈负相关，比如对新冠疫情严重程度的认知以及对抗击新冠疫情的行动意图。结构方程模型进一步表明，对新冠疫情的总体担忧在黑暗人格五因素与适应性和适应不良反应之间起到了中介作用。我们的研究结果表明，所有黑暗特质都与反社会行为有关，但它们的相对重要性会因结果变量的不同而有所变化。
