Personality differences and COVID-19: are extroversion and conscientiousness personality traits associated with engagement with containment measures?

Abstract Introduction In December 2019, an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) probably occurred in Wuhan, China. By March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared a pandemic. Containment measures such as social distancing and hand hygiene were...

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Main Authors: Lucas de F. Carvalho, Giselle Pianowski, André P. Gonçalves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul 2020-04-01
Series:Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2237-60892020000200179&tlng=en