What is the 'personality' that is less likely to comply with the stay-at-home order during a pandemic?



With the pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (COVID-19), many countries have been requested to refrain from going out and have been given strict curfew. However, it seems that it was difficult for each person to comply with the stay-at-home order, and new research has revealed the 'personality' of people who are less likely to comply with the stay-at-home order.

How personality and policy predict pandemic behavior: Understanding sheltering-in-place in 55 countries at the onset of COVID-19.

https://doi.apa.org/fulltext/2020-76208-001.html

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Measures such as urban blockades introduced to curb the spread of COVID-19 have affected the lives and economies of many people, but research results show that urban blockades actually curtailed the spread of the infection. It has been.

Research results that 530 million people were protected from the new coronavirus by lockdown etc. --GIGAZINE



In some countries, restrictions on going out were limited to advice and recommendations, while in other cases strict urban blockades with penalties were implemented. However, despite the strict restrictions on going out, it was not always easy for everyone to stay home according to the instructions, and some of them had strong stress and opposition to complying with the stay-at-home order, and gave advice and rules. There must have been some people who broke and went out.

Therefore, a research team of American and British psychologists studied the relationship between personality and the tendency to keep a stay-at-home order during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research team conducted the 'Measuring Worldwide COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs' for people from all 175 countries between March 20th and April 5th, 2020. Measurement of beliefs) ”We analyzed from the results of the project.

In this analysis, more than 200 people answered, including countries with a large number of infected people such as Brazil, the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Russia, and France, and countries with relatively low infections such as Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and Norway. Data from 55 countries were extracted. The total number of respondents was 101,005, the average age was 39 years old, and women accounted for 57%, and it was said that they had completed 16.4 years of education on average.



Respondents answered questions about social demographics and behavior during pandemics, as well as a questionnaire measuring five psychological characteristics called the Big Five (openness, integrity, extroversion, coordination, and neurotic tendencies). I answered.

Regarding the strictness of urban blockade in each country, 'school closure', 'workplace closure', 'cancellation of public events', 'suspension of public transportation', 'public information dissemination campaign', 'restriction of international movement', 'domestic' The score was assigned based on items such as 'restriction of movement'.

'Of course, in areas where government policy is more stringent, people are more likely to stay in the right place,' said Friedrich Götz of the University of Cambridge, the lead author of the study.



However, this study found not only that people's behavior differs depending on government policy, but also that 'people's personality can predict the tendency to follow advice and rules to refrain from going out during a pandemic.' It was.

According to the research team, those with high scores for openness, integrity, coordination, and neurotic tendencies in the Big Five were more likely to stay in the right places. On the other hand, people with high extroversion were much less likely to stay at home, despite various out-of-home bans.

Götz commented on the results: 'Extroverts are collective and social, and it is especially difficult to stay trapped in their homes and not see others. They can break the rules of urban blockade. They are the most sexual and spend less time at home than any other type of person from March to April. '

Also, those with low neurotic tendencies and openness scores were more likely to go out if the government did not implement strict blockade measures. People with a strong neurotic tendency are more likely to judge that infection with the virus is dangerous at an early stage, and people with high openness collect a wide range of information to recognize accurate risks and take new actions to protect themselves. It is believed that it was quick to adapt to the style. In addition, as the government's blockade measures became stricter, the influence of neurotic tendency and openness scores on behavior decreased.



'Our analysis reveals that both government rigor and personality have been predictors of the proportion of people who stay home independently,' Götz said. 'This result reaffirms the power of personality as a central driver of action,' said co-author Jon Jachimowicz of Harvard University, saying that the government will influence the impact of personality on anti-pandemic measures. He argued that it was important to understand.

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