Pandemic-activated psychological growth: significance of extraversion, self-consciousness and COVID-19 related anxiety
Background The sense of threat to health and life in the face of a pandemic, accompanied by difficulties imposed by lockdown, may trigger a serious crisis. Among possible consequences of such a crisis may paradoxically be the phenomenon of psychological growth. The aim of this article is to identify...
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| author | Magdalena Żurko Aleksandra Słowińska Alicja Senejko Kamila Madeja-Bień Zbigniew Łoś |
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The sense of threat to health and life in the face of a pandemic, accompanied by difficulties imposed by lockdown, may trigger a serious crisis. Among possible consequences of such a crisis may paradoxically be the phenomenon of psychological growth. The aim of this article is to identify predictors of pandemic-activated psychological growth (PPG). The relationships between extraversion, reflective and ruminative self-consciousness and PPG were the subject of our inquiry. Additionally, a question was posed about the indirect effect of self-consciousness on PPG through anxiety.
Participants and procedure
The study involved 1206 participants aged 18 to 26 years, who declared that the pandemic situation significantly threatened their important life goals. Procedure: cross-sectional design. Four online short questionnaire-measures were used: the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), the Rumination-Reflection Questionnaire (RRQ), the Current Self-disposition Scale (CSS), and the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI).
Results
Extraversion and reflective self-consciousness were direct predictors of higher PPG, whereas ruminative self-consciousness was directly related to a lower PPG. There was an indirect effect of ruminative self-consciousness on PPG through COVID-19 related anxiety.
Conclusions
Although the results do not confirm the permanence of a growth effect, finding PPG predictors considered as beneficial resources for coping with difficult pandemic circumstances appears to be valuable in the current state of affairs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ff3c38eef1fc4eeb800f1d3af16ec7b82023-11-27T12:34:39ZengTermedia Publishing HouseCurrent Issues in Personality Psychology2353-41922353-561X2022-06-0111318219210.5114/cipp.2022.112945145685Pandemic-activated psychological growth: significance of extraversion, self-consciousness and COVID-19 related anxietyMagdalena Żurko0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7675-9433Aleksandra Słowińska1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9498-501XAlicja Senejko2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1152-8516Kamila Madeja-Bień3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1118-0871Zbigniew Łoś4Institute of Psychology, University of WrocławInstitute of Psychology, University of WrocławInstitute of Psychology, University of WrocławInstitute of Psychology, University of WrocławInstitute of Psychology, University of WrocławBackground The sense of threat to health and life in the face of a pandemic, accompanied by difficulties imposed by lockdown, may trigger a serious crisis. Among possible consequences of such a crisis may paradoxically be the phenomenon of psychological growth. The aim of this article is to identify predictors of pandemic-activated psychological growth (PPG). The relationships between extraversion, reflective and ruminative self-consciousness and PPG were the subject of our inquiry. Additionally, a question was posed about the indirect effect of self-consciousness on PPG through anxiety. Participants and procedure The study involved 1206 participants aged 18 to 26 years, who declared that the pandemic situation significantly threatened their important life goals. Procedure: cross-sectional design. Four online short questionnaire-measures were used: the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), the Rumination-Reflection Questionnaire (RRQ), the Current Self-disposition Scale (CSS), and the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI). Results Extraversion and reflective self-consciousness were direct predictors of higher PPG, whereas ruminative self-consciousness was directly related to a lower PPG. There was an indirect effect of ruminative self-consciousness on PPG through COVID-19 related anxiety. Conclusions Although the results do not confirm the permanence of a growth effect, finding PPG predictors considered as beneficial resources for coping with difficult pandemic circumstances appears to be valuable in the current state of affairs.https://cipp.ug.edu.pl/Pandemic-activated-psychological-growth-significance-of-extraversion-self-consciousness,145685,0,2.htmlextraversionpandemic-activated psychological growth (ppg)reflective and ruminative self-consciousnesscovid-19 related anxiety |
| spellingShingle | Magdalena Żurko Aleksandra Słowińska Alicja Senejko Kamila Madeja-Bień Zbigniew Łoś Pandemic-activated psychological growth: significance of extraversion, self-consciousness and COVID-19 related anxiety Current Issues in Personality Psychology extraversion pandemic-activated psychological growth (ppg) reflective and ruminative self-consciousness covid-19 related anxiety |
| title | Pandemic-activated psychological growth: significance of extraversion, self-consciousness
and COVID-19 related anxiety |
| title_full | Pandemic-activated psychological growth: significance of extraversion, self-consciousness
and COVID-19 related anxiety |
| title_fullStr | Pandemic-activated psychological growth: significance of extraversion, self-consciousness
and COVID-19 related anxiety |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pandemic-activated psychological growth: significance of extraversion, self-consciousness
and COVID-19 related anxiety |
| title_short | Pandemic-activated psychological growth: significance of extraversion, self-consciousness
and COVID-19 related anxiety |
| title_sort | pandemic activated psychological growth significance of extraversion self consciousness and covid 19 related anxiety |
| topic | extraversion pandemic-activated psychological growth (ppg) reflective and ruminative self-consciousness covid-19 related anxiety |
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