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

Karolina A. Scigala*, Christoph Schild, Morten Moshagen, Lau Lilleholt, Ingo Zettler, Anna Stuckler, Stefan Pfattheicher

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Psychologist
Volume26
Issue4
Pages (from-to)348-358
Number of pages11
ISSN1016-9040
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2021

Keywords

  • honesty-humility
  • dark triad
  • coronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • aversive personality
  • DARK TRIAD
  • MACHIAVELLIANISM
  • HEXACO
  • NARCISSISM
  • BEHAVIOR
  • TRAITS
  • SIDE
  • BIAS

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