Big Five Traits as Predictors of a Healthy Lifestyle during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Russian Cross-Sectional Study

Zolotareva, A.A.; Щебетенко, Сергей; Belousova, Svetlana; Tseĭlikman, Vadim; Lapshin, Maxim; Sarapultseva, Lilia; Makhniova, Svetlana; Sarapultseva, Maria; Komelkova, Maria; Hu, Desheng; Luo, Shuhong; Lisovskaya, Ekaterina; Sarapultsev, Alexey

doi:10.3390/ijerph191710716

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“…This result confirms a very high number of previous findings documenting that neurotic people are prone to distress and psychopathology, both in a variety of situations (Bogg and Roberts, 2013;Friedman and Kern, 2014;Strickhouser et al, 2017;Anglim et al, 2020) and also during the COVID-19 pandemic (Qian and Yahara, 2020;Kocjan et al, 2021;Kohút et al, 2021;Nikčević et al, 2021;Schmiedeberg and Thönnissen, 2021). This is also in line with COVID-19 data about stress and wellbeing of secondary school and university students (Staller et al, 2021;Iterbeke and De Witte, 2022;Quigley et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2022;Zolotareva et al, 2022). Moreover, the relation between students' Negative Emotionality and Despair was very strong and it was higher compared to the relation with the other four traits, again supporting previous COVID-19related findings (Kocjan et al, 2021;Bacon et al, 2022).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Previous research involving university students has already in part examined the role of the Big Five traits concerning coping (i.e., Anglim and Horwood, 2021 ; Audet et al, 2021 ; Sahinidis and Tsaknis, 2021 ; Staller et al, 2021 ; Quigley et al, 2022 ; Wang et al, 2022 ; Weiß et al, 2022 ; Zolotareva et al, 2022 ).…”

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“…Their findings confirmed the association between being extravert on the one hand, and suffering from constraints together with benefiting from their relaxation on the other hand. Finally, Zolotareva et al (2022) investigated the relation between the Big Five traits and healthy life style in March and April 2021 in a sample of more than 1,200 university students in Russia. They found, for example, that stress management was related positively with Extraversion and Conscientiousness, and negatively with Neuroticism.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In parallel with a growth of the interest in some of the psychological consequences of the outbreak of the pandemic for university students (e.g., on students’ expectations and experiences, Aucejo et al, 2020 ; on adjustment to online courses, Audet et al, 2021 ; on e-learning achievement emotions, Raccanello et al, 2022a ), researchers are paying increasing attention to university students’ characteristics of personality that could have played a role in diminishing and compensating the negative impact of the diffusion of the COVID-19, promoting adaptive coping ( Anglim and Horwood, 2021 ; Audet et al, 2021 ; Sahinidis and Tsaknis, 2021 ; Staller et al, 2021 ; Quigley et al, 2022 ; Wang et al, 2022 ; Weiß et al, 2022 ; Zolotareva et al, 2022 ). In line with this tendency, we explored whether the Big Five traits (i.e., Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Open-Mindedness, and Negative Emotionality or Neuroticism) acted as risk or protective factors after the outbreak of a disaster such as the COVID-19 pandemic for a sample of Italian university students, taking into account a large variety of coping strategies.…”

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Big Five personality traits and coping strategies of Italian university students during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave

2023

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IntroductionLittle is known about the role personality traits may have played for university students in diminishing and compensating for the negative impact of COVID-19 in its early phases, promoting adaptive coping. University students represent a population which was consistently obliged to follow social distance rules due to the early shift of many organizations from face-to-face to online learning. Therefore, it is worth exploring whether the Big Five traits acted as risk or protective factors after the outbreak of a disaster such as the COVID-19 pandemic for Italian university students.MethodsWe involved a sample of 2,995 university students who completed an online survey in March 2020. We measured the Big Five personality traits through the Big Five Inventory-2-XS and their coping strategies through the Robust—Pandemic Coping Scale. The latter assessed four COVID-19-related coping dimensions, namely Despair (e.g., including helplessness and feeling lack of control), Aversion (e.g., referring to oppositive strategies), Proactivity (e.g., comprising problem solving and information seeking), and Adjustment (e.g., concerning reappraisal and assertiveness).ResultsPreliminarily, two Linear Mixed Models indicated that university students had higher scores in Conscientiousness, followed by Open-Mindedness, and then Agreeableness. These three traits were, in turn, higher than Extraversion and Negative Emotionality, which did not differ among them. Concerning coping, university students reacted more frequently utilizing adaptive strategies (with Proactivity used more frequently than Adjustment) rather than maladaptive strategies (with Despair higher than Aversion). A Path Analysis examining the relations between the Big Five traits and the four coping dimensions showed that Negative Emotionality can be considered as a risk factor, and that Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Open-Mindedness can be conceptualized as protective factors. More interestingly, we found that Extraversion entailed both a risk and a protective role for Italian university students after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.DiscussionNotwithstanding limitations, these findings can be the basis for developing disaster preparation and prevention actions, aiming at promoting students’ positive coping towards current and future disasters.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Big Five personality traits and coping strategies of Italian university students during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave

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“…For Russian university students whose data were collected in March and April 2020, extraversion positively predicted a focus on: diet and nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and restorative sleep. Although it was negatively associated with substance abuse, it was also more likely to expose students to contracting COVID-19 [31]. In another study conducted during March and April of 2020, Greek research of university students found extraversion had little to no effect on student satisfaction with online learning [32].…”

Section: Wavementioning

confidence: 98%

Extraversion in COVID-19 Coping

Nash¹

2023

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Extraversion, a Big Five personality trait, has been identified as a significant factor in COVID-19 positive coping—yet, relevant research is conflicting. Studies have not situated the influence of extraversion within a geographical and historical context. Thus, a sound base is lacking for assessing when opposing results regarding extraversion and COVID-19 positive coping are likely to result. Furthermore, extraversion with respect to COVID-19 coping has not been considered concerning other-directed learning in contrast to self-directed learning. To establish a sufficiently sound base, an examination of the range of high-ranking Google Scholar results on extraversion and COVID-19 coping from different countries during the pandemic’s various waves—pre and post vaccine introduction—is undertaken. The same are then considered for insights into public opinion. Following, extraversion is compared with other-directed learning and differentiated from self-directed learning. An understanding is thus presented for assessing when extraversion will necessarily be an effective personality trait for COVID-19 positive coping and when it will not. Extraversion’s effect will be found inherently inconsistent for identifying COVID-19 positive coping as a result, because of its dependence on other-directed learning. The conclusion: COVID-19 positive coping stability is contingent on personal values that guide self-directed learning, rather than other-directed extraversion.

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