Aversive Personality and COVID-19 A First Review and Meta-Analysis

TY - JOUR

T1 - Aversive Personality and COVID-19 A First Review and Meta-Analysis

AU - Scigala, Karolina A.

AU - Schild, Christoph

AU - Moshagen, Morten

AU - Lilleholt, Lau

AU - Zettler, Ingo

AU - Stuckler, Anna

AU - Pfattheicher, Stefan

PY - 2021/10

Y1 - 2021/10

N2 - The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has strongly affected individuals and societies worldwide. In this review and metaanalysis, we investigated how aversive personality traits that is, relatively stable antisocial personality characteristics related to how individuals perceived, evaluated, and responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across 34 studies with overall 26,780 participants, we found that people with higher scores in aversive personality traits were less likely to perceive guidelines and restrictions to curb the spread of the virus as protective (p = _.11), to engage in health behaviors related to COVID-19 (p = _.16), and to engage in non-health-related prosocial behavior related to COVID-19 (p = _.14). We found no consistent relation between aversive personality and negative effect regarding the pandemic. The results thus indicate the importance of aversive personality traits in understanding individual differences with regard to COVID-19.

AB - The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has strongly affected individuals and societies worldwide. In this review and metaanalysis, we investigated how aversive personality traits that is, relatively stable antisocial personality characteristics related to how individuals perceived, evaluated, and responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across 34 studies with overall 26,780 participants, we found that people with higher scores in aversive personality traits were less likely to perceive guidelines and restrictions to curb the spread of the virus as protective (p = _.11), to engage in health behaviors related to COVID-19 (p = _.16), and to engage in non-health-related prosocial behavior related to COVID-19 (p = _.14). We found no consistent relation between aversive personality and negative effect regarding the pandemic. The results thus indicate the importance of aversive personality traits in understanding individual differences with regard to COVID-19.

KW - honesty-humility

KW - dark triad

KW - coronavirus

KW - COVID-19

KW - aversive personality

KW - DARK TRIAD

KW - MACHIAVELLIANISM

KW - HEXACO

KW - NARCISSISM

KW - BEHAVIOR

KW - TRAITS

KW - SIDE

KW - BIAS

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122795223&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1027/1016-9040/a000456

DO - 10.1027/1016-9040/a000456

M3 - Review

SN - 1016-9040

VL - 26

SP - 348

EP - 358

JO - European Psychologist

JF - European Psychologist

IS - 4

ER -