Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine

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Robalino Guerra, Paulina Elizabeth; Musso, Mariel Fernanda; Vailati, Pablo Augusto; Cascallar, Eduardo
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2022
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Previous studies have demonstrated the psychological impact of stressful events related to an infectious disease outbreak. This impact may be moderated by the perception of risk and individual differences in personality. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of the personality profiles and mental health on the perceived risk (being infected, getting hospitalized, and dying from COVID-19) and on preventive behaviors (wash your hands, stay at home, maintain social distance, touch your face, and mask use). A total sample of 126 Argentine adults, both genders (females: 79.4%) with ages between 18 and 40 years (M = 23.33; SD = 5.54) participated answering the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R), the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) scale, a sociodemographic questionnaire, and COVID-19 estimates regarding risk perception and preventive behaviors. Results show that people with undercontrolled personality profile and high interpersonal sensitivity overestimates their probability of getting infected, hospitalization, and dying from COVID-19. In addition, resilient profile group with high anxiety overestimate the probability of hospitalization and dying; undercontrolled profile group with high anxiety, phobic anxiety, or psychoticism, also overestimate their probability of dying; undercontrolled profile people with high interpersonal sensitivity, or high anxiety, reported higher probabilities of maintaining social distance. Anxiety and depression symptoms explain a low percentage of the perceived risk variance; while conscientiousness, together with mental health were able to explain the estimated probability of engaging in protective behaviors. These findings could be useful to implement more effective and realistic strategies to promote the adoption of preventive behaviors.
Fil: Robalino Guerra, Paulina Elizabeth. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Musso, Mariel Fernanda. Universidad Argentina de la Empresa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; Argentina
Fil: Vailati, Pablo Augusto. Universidad Argentina de la Empresa; Argentina
Fil: Cascallar, Eduardo. Katholikie Universiteit Leuven; Bélgica
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MENTAL HEALTH
PERCEIVED RISK
PERSONALITY
PROTECTIVE BEHAVIORS
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine
title Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine
spellingShingle Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine
Robalino Guerra, Paulina Elizabeth
COVID-19
MENTAL HEALTH
PERCEIVED RISK
PERSONALITY
PROTECTIVE BEHAVIORS
title_short Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine
title_full Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine
title_fullStr Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine
title_full_unstemmed Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine
title_sort Personality and mental health: Factors impacting perceived health risks and protective behaviors during the early COVID-19 quarantine
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Robalino Guerra, Paulina Elizabeth
Musso, Mariel Fernanda
Vailati, Pablo Augusto
Cascallar, Eduardo
author Robalino Guerra, Paulina Elizabeth
author_facet Robalino Guerra, Paulina Elizabeth
Musso, Mariel Fernanda
Vailati, Pablo Augusto
Cascallar, Eduardo
author_role author
author2 Musso, Mariel Fernanda
Vailati, Pablo Augusto
Cascallar, Eduardo
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv COVID-19
MENTAL HEALTH
PERCEIVED RISK
PERSONALITY
PROTECTIVE BEHAVIORS
topic COVID-19
MENTAL HEALTH
PERCEIVED RISK
PERSONALITY
PROTECTIVE BEHAVIORS
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Previous studies have demonstrated the psychological impact of stressful events related to an infectious disease outbreak. This impact may be moderated by the perception of risk and individual differences in personality. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of the personality profiles and mental health on the perceived risk (being infected, getting hospitalized, and dying from COVID-19) and on preventive behaviors (wash your hands, stay at home, maintain social distance, touch your face, and mask use). A total sample of 126 Argentine adults, both genders (females: 79.4%) with ages between 18 and 40 years (M = 23.33; SD = 5.54) participated answering the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R), the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) scale, a sociodemographic questionnaire, and COVID-19 estimates regarding risk perception and preventive behaviors. Results show that people with undercontrolled personality profile and high interpersonal sensitivity overestimates their probability of getting infected, hospitalization, and dying from COVID-19. In addition, resilient profile group with high anxiety overestimate the probability of hospitalization and dying; undercontrolled profile group with high anxiety, phobic anxiety, or psychoticism, also overestimate their probability of dying; undercontrolled profile people with high interpersonal sensitivity, or high anxiety, reported higher probabilities of maintaining social distance. Anxiety and depression symptoms explain a low percentage of the perceived risk variance; while conscientiousness, together with mental health were able to explain the estimated probability of engaging in protective behaviors. These findings could be useful to implement more effective and realistic strategies to promote the adoption of preventive behaviors.
Fil: Robalino Guerra, Paulina Elizabeth. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Musso, Mariel Fernanda. Universidad Argentina de la Empresa; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; Argentina
Fil: Vailati, Pablo Augusto. Universidad Argentina de la Empresa; Argentina
Fil: Cascallar, Eduardo. Katholikie Universiteit Leuven; Bélgica
description Previous studies have demonstrated the psychological impact of stressful events related to an infectious disease outbreak. This impact may be moderated by the perception of risk and individual differences in personality. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of the personality profiles and mental health on the perceived risk (being infected, getting hospitalized, and dying from COVID-19) and on preventive behaviors (wash your hands, stay at home, maintain social distance, touch your face, and mask use). A total sample of 126 Argentine adults, both genders (females: 79.4%) with ages between 18 and 40 years (M = 23.33; SD = 5.54) participated answering the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R), the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) scale, a sociodemographic questionnaire, and COVID-19 estimates regarding risk perception and preventive behaviors. Results show that people with undercontrolled personality profile and high interpersonal sensitivity overestimates their probability of getting infected, hospitalization, and dying from COVID-19. In addition, resilient profile group with high anxiety overestimate the probability of hospitalization and dying; undercontrolled profile group with high anxiety, phobic anxiety, or psychoticism, also overestimate their probability of dying; undercontrolled profile people with high interpersonal sensitivity, or high anxiety, reported higher probabilities of maintaining social distance. Anxiety and depression symptoms explain a low percentage of the perceived risk variance; while conscientiousness, together with mental health were able to explain the estimated probability of engaging in protective behaviors. These findings could be useful to implement more effective and realistic strategies to promote the adoption of preventive behaviors.
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