Sex differences in maladaptive emotional and behavioral responses to COVID-19: What is the role of personality?

Sarah DeGrace; Natasha Baptist-Mohseni; Alanna Single; Matthew T. Keough; Jeffrey D. Wardell; Sherry H. Stewart

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110834

Sex differences in maladaptive emotional and behavioral responses to COVID-19: What is the role of personality?

Sarah DeGrace, Natasha Baptist-Mohseni, Alanna Single, Matthew T. Keough, Jeffrey D. Wardell, Sherry H. Stewart

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Males are more non-adherent to public health measures for containing COVID-19 while females experience more COVID-19-related distress. Personality traits may influence both non-adherence and distress. We examined sensation seeking (SS), anxiety sensitivity (AS), impulsivity, and hopelessness as traits potentially associated with non-adherence and distress in response to COVID-19. Furthermore, we sought to understand if known sex differences in SS (male > female) and AS (female > male) may explain sex differences on these two COVID-19 outcomes. In the first month of the pandemic, 400 adults (mean age = 32.16 years; 45.3%F) completed the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale to assess personality. Degree of adherence to public health recommendations and COVID-19-related distress were also measured. Male sex was indirectly related to poorer adherence to stay-at-home advisories via SS, and female sex was indirectly related to higher COVID-19 distress via AS. Personality-targeted interventions may help reduce non-adherence and COVID-19 distress, potentially reducing sex differences.

Idioma original	English
Número de artículo	110834
Publicación	Personality and Individual Differences
Volumen	178
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110834
Estado	Published - ago. 2021

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This work was supported through funding from York University to MK and a CIHR COVID-19 Mental Health/Substance Use grant to SHS and MK. SDG is supported by a Nova Scotia Black and Indigenous Student Scholarship from Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies, NBM by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and SHS by a CIHR Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Addictions and Mental Health.

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