Kumar V Vineeth, Tankha Geetika
Department of Psychology, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur 303007, India.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2022 Jan 26;12(2):24. doi: 10.3390/bs12020024.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of fear and anxiety globally. The current study attempted to investigate the association among the big five personality traits and the two factors of COVID-19 pandemic anxiety (fear and somatic concern). Further, sleep quality as a mediator between personality traits and pandemic anxiety was also assessed. The study involved a cross-sectional sample of 296 adult Indians who were administered the 10-item short version of BFI along with the COVID-19 Pandemic Anxiety Scale and Sleep Quality Scale. Path analysis was used to test the theoretical model that we proposed. The overall model has explained 6% and 36% of the variance, respectively, for the factors of fear and somatic concern of COVID-19 pandemic anxiety. The path analysis model indicated that only the trait of neuroticism showed a significant direct and indirect effect on pandemic anxiety in the sample. Those scoring high on neuroticism indicated high levels of fear as well as somatic concern. Neuroticism also showed partial mediation through sleep quality on the factor of somatic concern. Agreeableness was the only other personality trait that indicated a significantly negative relationship with the factor of somatic concern. These relationships were independent of age, gender, and occupational status. These findings provide a preliminary insight into the slightly different relationship which has emerged between personality and COVID-19 pandemic anxiety in comparison to general anxiety.
新冠疫情在全球引发了诸多恐惧和焦虑。本研究试图探究大五人格特质与新冠疫情焦虑的两个因素（恐惧和躯体担忧）之间的关联。此外，还评估了睡眠质量作为人格特质与疫情焦虑之间的中介作用。该研究涉及296名成年印度人的横断面样本，他们接受了10项简短版大五人格量表（BFI）以及新冠疫情焦虑量表和睡眠质量量表的测试。采用路径分析来检验我们提出的理论模型。总体模型分别解释了新冠疫情焦虑的恐惧和躯体担忧因素变异的6%和36%。路径分析模型表明，在样本中只有神经质特质对疫情焦虑表现出显著的直接和间接影响。神经质得分高的人表现出高水平的恐惧以及躯体担忧。神经质在躯体担忧因素上还通过睡眠质量表现出部分中介作用。宜人性是唯一另一个与躯体担忧因素呈显著负相关的人格特质。这些关系独立于年龄、性别和职业状况。这些发现为与一般焦虑相比，人格与新冠疫情焦虑之间出现的略有不同的关系提供了初步见解。
