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PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 171, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110504
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Dark personality; Dark Tetrad; COVID-19; Pandemic
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The study found that dark personality traits have different predictive effects on individual responses to the pandemic. Narcissism and Machiavellianism predicted more negative emotions and feelings of threat, while psychopathy predicted more positive emotions. Dark personality traits also showed predictive ability in explaining pandemic-related behaviors.
As the COVID-19 pandemic and interventions intended to minimize its spread continue to impact daily life, personality research may help to address the different ways in which people respond to a major global health crisis. The present study assessed the role of dark personality traits in predicting different responses to the pandemic. A nationally representative sample of 412 Americans completed measures of the Dark Tetrad as well as perceptions of COVID-19 threat, emergency beliefs, and positive and negative affect in response to COVID-19. Narcissism and Machiavellianism predicted greater negative affect and perceptions of threat during the pandemic, while psychopathy predicted positive affect. Conversely, sadism predicted greater positive affect. Dark personality also showed some predictive ability in explaining pandemic-related behaviors (e.g., more frequent cleaning) but not others (e.g., social distancing). Our findings provide evidence for differences in how dark personality traits predict individual responses to global crises.
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