Personality psychology in times of crisis: Profile-specific recommendations on how to deal with COVID-19

Michels, Moritz; Glöckner, Andreas; Giersch, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110676

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“…One way to address this could be through programs that help people deal with the pandemic situation according to their individual personality profiles (cf. Michels et al, 2021 ). Such an approach may also be more effective than trying to achieve maximum compliance with the measures via politically driven top–down strategies.…”

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Personality and Motivation to Comply With COVID-19 Protective Measures in Germany

Kaspar

Nordmeyer

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic strains the healthcare systems, economy, education, and social life. Governments took several protective measures and formulated behavioral guidelines to prevent individual diseases and the collapse of healthcare systems. However, individual differences in the extent of compliance with the measures are apparent. To shed more light on this issue, the present correlational study examined the joint relation of several personal characteristics to people's motivation to comply with seven protective measures. Personal characteristics included age, gender, risk perception, the Big Five, the Dark Triad, conspiracy mentality, perceived locus of control, and general affect. Protective measures included social distancing, hygiene rules, wearing face masks, using a contact-tracing app, sharing one's infection status via the app, reducing physical contacts, and vaccinations. The study ran from 10 November 2020 to 29 December 2020. Based on a sample of 1,007 German-speaking participants, bivariate correlations and multiple regression analyses showed that personal characteristics are significantly linked to the motivation to comply with these measures. However, general affect, control beliefs, and basic personality traits play only a minor role. Age and gender showed some significant associations with protective measures. In contrast, protection motivation factors, in terms of perceived severity of and vulnerability to infection, and conspiracy mentality appear to be the major correlates of adopting protective behavior. The absolute motivation to comply with the measures also shows that hygiene rules and wearing face masks receive a higher average agreement than more personally intrusive measures such as physical contact restrictions and vaccinations. These results highlight that factors that are relevant to some measures may be irrelevant to other measures. Differences in people's personal characteristics should be considered in the design and communication of measures to support social acceptance and effectiveness. In this context, cognitive variables, which can be addressed by communication and education directly, seem to be more important than general affect and relatively time-invariant personality traits.

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Personality and Motivation to Comply With COVID-19 Protective Measures in Germany

Kaspar

Nordmeyer

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…In this context, the reinforcing effect of TCAM use on social identification can also be seen as an indirect coping strategy to maintain mental health and provide a sense of security [42]. Michels et al [43] state that besides the concrete threat to people's physical health, a reduced perceived situational control is one of the stressors people had to deal with during the COVID-19 pandemic. Medicinal plant use in this context can be addressed to the search for ways to reduce perceived lower situational control and can thus be seen as a culturally appropriate/culture-bound coping strategy.…”

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‘A disease like any other’ traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use and perspectives in the context of COVID-19 among the Congolese community in Belgium

Meyer

Damme

Peña

et al. 2022

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background As a hard-hit area during the COVID-19 pandemic, Belgium knew the highest mortality among people from sub-Saharan African descent, compared to any other group living in the country. After migration, people often maintain traditional perceptions and habits regarding health and healthcare, resulting in a high prevalence of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use among different migrant communities in northern urban settings. Despite being the largest community of sub-Saharan African descent in Belgium, little is known on ethnobotanical practices of the Belgian Congolese community. We therefore conducted an exploratory study on the use of medicinal plants in the context of COVID-19 and perceptions on this new disease among members of the Congolese community in Belgium. Methods We conducted 16 in-depth semi-structured interviews with people of Congolese descent currently living in Belgium. Participants were selected using purposive sampling. Medicinal plant use in the context of COVID-19 was recorded through free-listing. Data on narratives, ideas and perceptions on the origin, cause/aetiology and overall measures against COVID-19 (including vaccination) were collected. Interview transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Results Four overarching themes emerged from our data. Firstly, participants perceived the representation of the severity of COVID-19 by the Belgian media and government—and by extend by all governmental agencies in the global north—as exaggerated. As a result, traditional and complementary treatments were seen as feasible options to treat symptoms of the disease. Fifteen forms of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine were documented, of which thirteen were plants. Participants seem to fold back on their Congolese identity and traditional knowledge in seeking coping strategies to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, institutional postcolonial distrust did not only seem to lead to distrust in official messages on the COVID-19 pandemic but also to feelings of vaccination hesitancy. Conclusion In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, participants in our study retreated to, reshaped and adapted traditional and culture-bound knowledge. This study suggests that the fragile and sensitive relationship between sub-Saharan African migrant groups and other social/ethnic groups in Belgium might play a role in their sensitivity to health-threatening situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…It would be interesting, in future, to verify about possible relationships between these three emergent perspectives here presented, with, per example, approaches to learning from the interviewees, using for that, quantitative studies recurring to questionnaires and mixed methods (Entwistle, 2018). A change of perspective about the way of experiencing the non-face-to-face teaching can be explained by the capacity that individuals must deal with adverse situations, activating coping strategies to deal with the pandemic situation (Michels, Glöckner, & Giersch, 2021) what is, in fact, different from one individual to another. It could have been interesting to look for relationships between the perspectives of these students with their coping strategies do deal with this situation.…”

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The Experiences of University Students in Non-Face-to-Face Classes During the Covid19 Pandemic – A Phenomenographic Perspective

Leal¹,

Chaleta²

2022

Proceedings of INTCESS 2022- 9th International Conference on Education &Amp; Education of Social Sciences

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Personality psychology in times of crisis: Profile-specific recommendations on how to deal with COVID-19

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Personality and Motivation to Comply With COVID-19 Protective Measures in Germany

Personality and Motivation to Comply With COVID-19 Protective Measures in Germany

‘A disease like any other’ traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use and perspectives in the context of COVID-19 among the Congolese community in Belgium

The Experiences of University Students in Non-Face-to-Face Classes During the Covid19 Pandemic – A Phenomenographic Perspective

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