Personality and early susceptibility to COVID-19 in the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT: This paper takes advantage of a unique dataset with a prospectively longitudinal, nationally representative sample (n = 5,178) that began in 1958 and has information on COVID-19 health status in 2020 to examine the effect of Big Five personality traits on compliance with social distancing requirements and contraction of COVID-19. The results show some consistency with epidemiological recommendations (Conscientious individuals were more likely to maintain social distance and less likely to contract COVID-19; men were less likely to comply and more likely to contract) but more inconsistency (Agreeable individuals were more likely to comply with social distancing requirements yet more likely to contract COVID-19; Open and Neurotic individuals were no less likely to comply yet more likely to c

SUBMITTER: Kanazawa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8653120 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature