How personality and policy predict pandemic behavior
Understanding sheltering-in-place in 54 countries at the onset of Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8724959 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Friedrich M Götz (0000-0001-8900-6844, corresponding author), Andrés Gvirtz (0000-0001-5815-7164), Adam D Galinsky (0000-0002-5150-6533), Jon M Jachimowicz (0000-0002-1197-8958) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-49 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/amp0000740 |
| PMID | 33475389 |
| OpenAlex | W3086241785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 8 |
The spread of COVID-19 within any given country or community at the onset of the pandemic depended in part on the sheltering-in-place rate of its citizens. The pandemic led us to revisit one of psychology's most fundamental and most basic questions in a high-stakes context: what determines human behavior? Adopting a Lewinian interactionist lens, we investigate the independent and joint effects of macrolevel government policies and microlevel psychological factors-that is, personality-on whether individuals sheltered-in-place. We analyzed data collected in late March and early April 2020 from 101,005 participants in 55 countries, a time period that coincided with the early and accelerating stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. This time period also contained substantial variation in the stringency of governmental policy toward sheltering-in-place, both between countries and within each country over time. Analyses revealed that personality and the stringency of governmental policies independently predicted sheltering-in-place rates. Policy stringency was positively related to sheltering-in-place. For the personality dimensions, Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism all predicted higher rates of sheltering-in-place, whereas Extraversion was negatively related to staying at home. In addition, two personality traits-Openness to Experience and Neuroticism-interacted with governmental policy to predict whether individuals sheltered-in-place; openness and neuroticism each had weaker effects on sheltering-in-place as governmental policies became stricter. Theoretically, the findings demonstrate that individual differences predict behavior (i.e., sheltering-in-place) even when governments take strong action targeting that behavior. Practically, they suggest that even if governments lift their shelter-in-place restrictions, some individuals will shelter-in-place less than others. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Agreeableness · Big Five personality traits · Conscientiousness · Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Demographic economics · Economics · Extraversion and introversion · Geography · Government (linguistics · Neuroticism · Openness to experience · Pandemic · Personality · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Medicine · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
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| Citations per year | 5,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |