Personality and Individual Differences

Article	Citations
Fearing the disease or the vaccine: The case of COVID-19	321
Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness	290
Who complies with the restrictions to reduce the spread of COVID-19?: Personality and perceptions of the COVID-19 situation	243
The development and initial tests for the psychometric properties of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-S)	238
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective mental well-being: The interplay of perceived threat, future anxiety and resilience	206
COVID-19-related conspiracy beliefs and their relationship with perceived stress and pre-existing conspiracy beliefs	177
Personality and perceived stress during COVID-19 pandemic: Testing the mediating role of perceived threat and efficacy	171
Political polarization on COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States	169
Adaptive and maladaptive behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of Dark Triad traits, collective narcissism, and health beliefs	145
Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness	141
Emotional responses to prosocial messages increase willingness to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic	130
COVID-19 related loneliness and sleep problems in older adults: Worries and resilience as potential moderators	127
Optimism-pessimism, conspiracy theories and general trust as factors contributing to COVID-19 related behavior – A cross-cultural study	122
Procrastination predicts online self-regulated learning and online learning ineffectiveness during the coronavirus lockdown	118
Behavioral immune system linked to responses to the threat of COVID-19	114
Keep your (social) distance: Pathogen concerns and social perception in the time of COVID-19	111
Personal economic anxiety in response to COVID-19	111
The impact of fear and anxiety of Covid-19 on life satisfaction: Psychological distress and sleep disturbance as mediators	109
Content matters. Different predictors and social consequences of general and government-related conspiracy theories on COVID-19	103
Perceived vulnerability to disease and attitudes towards public health measures: COVID-19 in Flanders, Belgium	101
Compliance with containment measures to the COVID-19 pandemic over time: Do antisocial traits matter?	88
Gender, face mask perceptions, and face mask wearing: Are men being dangerous during the COVID-19 pandemic?	86
Trait emotional intelligence and emotional experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Poland: A daily diary study	85
The relationships between resilience of the adults affected by the covid pandemic in Turkey and Covid-19 fear, meaning in life, life satisfaction, intolerance of uncertainty and hope	85
COVID-19-related stress and anxiety are associated with negative body image in adults from the United Kingdom	83

Predictors of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland	83
Individual differences in social distancing and mask-wearing in the pandemic of COVID-19: The role of need for cognition, self-control and risk attitude	82
The role of alexithymia in the mental health problems of home-quarantined university students during the COVID-19 pandemic in China	81
The influence of demographics and personality on COVID-19 coping in young adults	72
From entrepreneurial passion to entrepreneurial intentions: The role of entrepreneurial passion, innovativeness, and curiosity in driving entrepreneurial intentions	70
Modeling consumers' information acquisition and 5G technology utilization: Is personality relevant?	67
A meta-analytic review of the relationship between dispositional gratitude and well-being	66
Self-compassion, intolerance of uncertainty, fear of COVID-19, and well-being: A serial mediation investigation	66
“Do I have enough food?” How need for cognitive closure and gender impact stockpiling and food waste during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-national study in India and the United States of America	65
Individual differences in Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Age, gender, and the Big Five personality trait domains, facets, and items	65
Boredom in the COVID-19 pandemic: Trait boredom proneness, the desire to act, and rule-breaking	64
Deviation from the balanced time perspective: A systematic review of empirical relationships with psychological variables	64
Self-compassion and life-satisfaction among Chinese self-quarantined residents during COVID-19 pandemic: A moderated mediation model of positive coping and gender	61
How did socio-demographic status and personal attributes influence compliance to COVID-19 preventive behaviours during the early outbreak in Japan? Lessons for pandemic management	59
It's a conspiracy: Covid-19 conspiracies link to psychopathy, Machiavellianism and collective narcissism	59
Moral foundations underlying behavioral compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic	58
The role of online social comparison as a protective factor for psychological wellbeing: A longitudinal study during the COVID-19 quarantine	57
Are personality measures valid for different populations? A systematic review of measurement invariance across cultures, gender, and age	57
The Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale Revised (5DCR): Briefer subscales while separating overt and covert social curiosity	57
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and intention to get vaccinated. The serial mediation roles of existential anxiety and conspiracy beliefs	56
Evolution and revolution: Personality research for the coming world of robots, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems	55
The relationship of compassion and self-compassion with personality and emotional intelligence	55
Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and containment-related behaviour: The role of political trust	52
Dysfunctional personality features, non-scientifically supported causal beliefs, and emotional problems during the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	52
COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: Relations with anxiety, quality of life, and schemas	52
An explorative study of the individual differences associated with consumer stockpiling during the early stages of the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak in Europe	51
Association of smartphone use with depression, anxiety, stress, sleep quality, and internet addiction. Empirical evidence from a smartphone application	50
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) and posttraumatic depreciation (PTD) across ten countries: Global validation of the PTG-PTD theoretical model	50
Telecommuting during the coronavirus pandemic: Future time orientation as a mediator between proactive coping and perceived work productivity in two cultural samples	50
Right-wing Authoritarianism, Left-wing Authoritarianism, and pandemic-mitigation authoritarianism	49
Makeup usage in women as a tactic to attract mates and compete with rivals	49
Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic	48
What factors underlie attitudes regarding protective mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic?	48
Human responses to Covid-19: The role of optimism bias, perceived severity, and anxiety	48
Exploring the association between compliance with measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and big five traits with Bayesian generalized linear model	47
Social distancing is the right thing to do: Dark Triad behavioral correlates in the COVID-19 quarantine	45
Perceived stress and mobile phone addiction among college students during the 2019 coronavirus disease: The mediating roles of rumination and the moderating role of self-control	45
Mindfulness training on the resilience of adolescents under the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent growth curve analysis	45
Importance of work characteristics affects job performance: The mediating role of individual dispositions on the work design-performance relationships	45
The role of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and social anxiety in problematic smartphone and social media use	44
Individual differences, personality, social, family and work variables on mental health during COVID-19 outbreak in Spain	44
Trait mindfulness is negatively associated with distress related to COVID-19	44
Childhood maltreatment and aggression: The mediating roles of hostile attribution bias and anger rumination	43
COVID-19 fear, stress, sleep quality and coping activities during lockdown, and personality traits: A person-centered approach analysis	43
Why are conservatives less concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19) than liberals? Comparing political, experiential, and partisan messaging explanations	43
Greater belief in science predicts mask-wearing behavior during COVID-19	42
Predictors of belief in conspiracy theory: The role of individual differences in schizotypal traits, paranormal beliefs, social dominance orientation, right wing authoritarianism and conspiracy mental	42
Looking beyond the Big Five: A selective review of alternatives to the Big Five model of personality	41
Personality traits and conflict resolution styles: A meta-analysis	41
Family functioning and mental health among secondary vocational students during the COVID-19 epidemic: A moderated mediation model	40

Predictors of emotional distress during the COVID-19 pandemic; a Croatian study	40
Callous-Unemotional traits and cyberbullying perpetration: The mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating role of empathy	40
What makes an engaged employee? A facet-level approach to trait emotional intelligence as a predictor of employee engagement	40
The role of uncertainty tolerance and meaning in life on depression and anxiety throughout Covid-19 pandemic	38
Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Public attention about COVID-19 on social media: An investigation based on data mining and text analysis	38
Culture, COVID-19, and collectivism: A paradox of American exceptionalism?	38
Risk-taking, resilience, and state anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A coming of (old) age story	38
Does religion predict coronavirus conspiracy beliefs? Centrality of religiosity, religious fundamentalism, and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs	37
Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being	37
Longitudinal study on affect, psychological well-being, depression, mental and physical health, prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	36
Self-efficacy and mental health problems during COVID-19 pandemic: A multiple mediation model based on the Health Belief Model	36
Meaning making helps cope with COVID-19: A longitudinal study	36
How is extraversion related to social media use? A literature review	35
The link between ego-resiliency, social support, SARS-CoV-2 anxiety and trauma effects. Polish adaptation of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	35
Somebody that I (used to) know: Gender and dimensions of dark personality traits as predictors of intimate partner cyberstalking	35
Assessing alexithymia: Psychometric properties of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire and 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in United States adults	35
Loneliness and emotion regulation	35
How threat perceptions relate to learning and conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19: Evidence from a panel study	35
Intergenerational conflicts of interest and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Psychological entitlement predicts noncompliance with the health guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic	35
The structure of the Dark Triad traits: A network analysis	34
The impact of mortality salience on quantified self behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Relationship between mindfulness, depression, anxiety and stress: Mediating role of self-efficacy	34
What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality	34
Birds of a feather are persuaded together: Perceived source credibility mediates the effect of political bias on misinformation susceptibility	34
Revisiting the social stigma of loneliness	34
Is the COVID-19 pandemic even darker for some? Examining dark personality and affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Personality factors and self-reported political news consumption predict susceptibility to political fake news	33
Exploring the persome: The power of the item in understanding personality structure	33
Growth mindset of socioeconomic status boosts subjective well-being: A longitudinal study	32
Existential isolation, loneliness, and attachment in young adults	32
The role of ideological attitudes in responses to COVID-19 threat and government restrictions in Australia	32
Social cognition and sex: Are men and women really different?	32
A neglected reality of mass media during COVID-19: Effect of pandemic news on individual's positive and negative emotion and psychological resilience	32
The behavioral immune system and conservatism as predictors of disease-avoidant attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
COVID-19: How the stress generated by the pandemic may affect work performance through the moderating role of emotional intelligence	31
Anxiety associated with COVID-19 and concerns about death: Impacts on psychological well-being	31
Politics of COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Left/right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and libertarianism	31
Wearing mask hinders emotion recognition, but enhances perception of attractiveness	31
Using the International Cognitive Ability Resource as an open source tool to explore individual differences in cognitive ability	30
Prosocial responses to COVID-19: Examining the role of gratitude, fairness and legacy motives	30
Zooming their way through university: Which Big 5 traits facilitated students' adjustment to online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Conspiracy beliefs and trust as determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Bali, Indonesia: Cross-sectional study	29
Coping profiles and their association with psychological functioning: A latent profile analysis of coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Predicting contract cheating intentions: Dark personality traits, attitudes, norms, and anticipated guilt and shame	28
The relationship of perceived social support to feelings of hopelessness under COVID-19 pandemic: The effects of epidemic risk and meaning in life	28
Understanding the overlap and differences in terms describing patterns of maladaptive avoidance and intolerance of negative emotional states	28
Big Five personality traits, dispositional affect, and financial satisfaction among older adults	28
No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak	28
Moral decision-making and support for safety procedures amid the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Dark Triad and schadenfreude: Mediating role of moral disengagement and relational aggression	28
The incremental effect of Dark personality over the Big Five in workplace bullying: Evidence from perpetrators and targets	27
The impacts of a COVID-19 epidemic focus and general belief in a just world on individual emotions	27
Attachment anxiety predicts worse mental health outcomes during COVID-19: Evidence from two studies	27
Mindfulness mediates the relationship between cognitive reappraisal and resilience in higher education students	27
Resting state frontal alpha asymmetry predicts emotion regulation difficulties in impulse control	27
The role of emotional intelligence and self-care in the stress perception during COVID-19 outbreak: An intercultural moderated mediation analysis	27
Parental warmth, rejection, and creativity: The mediating roles of openness and dark personality traits	27
Perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and adolescents' depression symptoms: The moderating role of character strengths	27
Individualism-collectivism during the COVID-19 pandemic: A field study testing the pathogen stress hypothesis of individualism-collectivism in Korea	26
Investigating how individual differences influence responses to the COVID-19 crisis: The role of maladaptive and five-factor personality traits	26
Burnout from emotion regulation at work: The moderating role of gratitude	26
Person and situation effects in predicting outgroup prejudice and avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Gender as a moderator between Present-Hedonistic time perspective and depressive symptoms or stress during COVID-19 lock-down	26
Do psychological strengths protect college students confined by COVID-19 to emotional distress? The role of gender	25
Big Five traits, approach-avoidance motivation, concerns and adherence with COVID-19 prevention guidelines during the peak of pandemic in Croatia	25
The associations between Big Five personality traits, gaming motives, and self-reported time spent gaming	25
Personality and the perception of situations: The Big Five and Dark Triad traits	25
Creativity myths: Prevalence and correlates of misconceptions on creativity	25
Exploring the relationship between core self-evaluation and strengths use: The perspective of emotion	25
Relationships between the big five personality characteristics and performance on behavioral decision making tasks	25
Grandiose narcissists and decision making: Impulsive, overconfident, and skeptical of experts–but seldom in doubt	25
Big Five traits predict stress and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for the role of neuroticism	25
Brief report - “Every little thing gonna be all right” (at least for me): Dispositional optimists display higher optimistic bias for infection during the Italian COVID-19 outbreak	25
Understanding neuroticism and social media: A systematic review	25
The role of passion and emotions in academic procrastination during a pandemic (COVID-19)	25
How does interpersonal emotion regulation explain psychological distress? The roles of attachment style and social support	25
Dark Triad and instigated incivility: The moderating role of workplace spirituality	25
Neuroticism and cyberchondria: The mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty and defensive pessimism	25

Who cheats? An examination of light and dark personality traits as predictors of infidelity	24
Perfectionism is adaptive and maladaptive, but what's the combined effect?	24
Six dimensions of sexual disgust	24
Information quality, media richness, and negative coping: A daily research during the COVID-19 pandemic	24
The COVID-19 pandemic as an impetus for pro-environmental behaviours: The role of causal attribution	24
Mindfulness, self-compassion and wellbeing	24
Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and narcissistic traits	24
Actors of the most fiendish character: Explaining the associations between the Dark Tetrad and conspiracist ideation	24
“How to unlock myself from boredom?” The role of mindfulness and a dual awareness- and action-oriented pathway during the COVID-19 lockdown	24
“What's next?” Individual differences in expected repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Personality and sport performance: The role of perfectionism, Big Five traits, and anticipated performance in predicting the results of distance running competitions	24
For whom, and for what, is experience sampling more accurate than retrospective report?	24
The tendency for interpersonal victimhood: The personality construct and its consequences	23
An examination of two major constructs of cross-cultural competence: Cultural intelligence and intercultural competence	23
Unmasking the psychology of recognizing emotions of people wearing masks: The role of empathizing, systemizing, and autistic traits	23
Personality profiles based on the FFM: A systematic review with a person-centered approach	23
Gender differences in creativity: Examining the greater male variability hypothesis in different domains and tasks	23
Firstborns buy better for the greater good: Birth order differences in green consumption values	23
Editorial to special issue “Personality and individual differences and healthy organizations”	23
A multifunction approach to assessing Aristotelian phronesis (practical wisdom)	23
State loneliness is associated with emotional hypervigilance in daily life: A network analysis	23
Right-wing political orientation, national identification and the acceptance of immigrants and minorities	22
Integration of balanced time perspective and time perception: The role of executive control and neuroticism	22
The relationship of personality and behavior change in a physical activity intervention: The role of conscientiousness and healthy neuroticism	22
The good, the bad, and the neutral: Vaccine hesitancy mediates the relations of Psychological Capital, the Dark Triad, and the Big Five with vaccination willingness and behaviors	22
A serial mediation model testing growth mindset, life satisfaction, and perceived distress as predictors of perseverance of effort	22
Relational meaning in life as a predictor of interpersonal well-being: A prospective analysis	22
Views of sexual assault following #MeToo: The role of gender and individual differences	22
A compensatory model to understand dysfunctional personality traits in problematic gaming: The role of vulnerable narcissism	22
Influence of grit on lifestyle factors during the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of adults in the United States	22
Gender, sexual orientation and type of relationship influence individual differences in jealousy: A large Brazilian sample	21
Associations of political orientation, xenophobia, right-wing authoritarianism, and concern of COVID-19: Cognitive responses to an actual pathogen threat	21
Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad	21
Hope and post-stress growth during COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of perceived stress and the moderating role of empathy	21
Gender, behavioral inhibition/activation, and emotional reactions to negative natural and social events	21
Big Five predictors of pandemic-related behavior and emotions in the first and second COVID-19 pandemic wave in Slovakia	21
Brief screening measures of mental health for war-related dysfunctional anxiety and negative persistent thinking	21
Emotion regulation and empathic abilities in young adults: The role of attachment styles	21
Worker resilience during the COVID-19 crisis: The role of core beliefs challenge, emotion regulation, and family strain	21
Why older employees engage in less counterproductive work behavior and in more organizational citizenship behavior: Examining the role of the HEXACO personality traits	21
Unmasking gender differences in narcissism within intimate partner violence	21
The effect of ego-resiliency and COVID-19-related stress on mental health among the Japanese population	21
The role of self-compassion in athlete mindfulness and burnout: Examination of the effects of gender differences	20
Trait self-construal, inclusion of others in the self and self-control predict stay-at-home adherence during COVID-19	20
Impulsivity traits and Facebook addiction in young people and the potential mediating role of coping styles	20
The role of impulsivity and delay discounting in student compliance with COVID-19 protective measures	20
Need for cognitive closure predicts stress and anxiety of college students during COVID-19 pandemic	20
Follow or not follow?: The relationship between psychological entitlement and compliance with preventive measures to the COVID-19	20
Dark personalities and Bitcoin®: The influence of the Dark Tetrad on cryptocurrency attitude and buying intention	20
The relationship between emotional intelligence and eating disorders or disordered eating behaviors: A meta-analysis	20
Light and dark trait subtypes of human personality – A multi-study person-centered approach	20
We're all in this together, but for different reasons: Social values and social actions that affect COVID-19 preventative behaviors	20
Dark personality traits, political values, and prejudice: Testing a dual process model of prejudice towards refugees	20
General versus specific personality traits for predicting entrepreneurship	20
Dispositional greed predicts benign and malicious envy	20
Laughing all the way to the lockdown: On humor, optimism, and well-being during COVID-19	20
Emotional intelligence and performance in a stressful task: The mediating role of self-efficacy	19
Predictors of online compulsive buying: The role of personality and mindfulness	19
Fooled by the fakes: Cognitive differences in perceived claim accuracy and sharing intention of non-political deepfakes	19
“Fund me, I am fabulous!” Do narcissistic entrepreneurs succeed or fail in crowdfunding?	19
The role of empathy in the mechanism linking parental psychological control to emotional reactivities to COVID-19 pandemic: A pilot study among Chinese emerging adults	19
Shedding light on the Light Triad: Further evidence on structural, construct, and predictive validity of the Light Triad	19
Being future-conscious during a global crisis: The protective effect of heightened Futures Consciousness in the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Sensory-processing sensitivity and COVID-19 stress in a young population: The mediating role of resilience	19
An affect in its own right: Investigating the relationship of social safeness with positive and negative affect	19
Policymakers as safe havens: The relationship between adult attachment style, COVID-19 fear, and regulation compliance	19
The psychology of morbid curiosity: Development and initial validation of the morbid curiosity scale	19
Mindfulness and life satisfaction: The moderating effect of self-control and the moderated moderating effect of resilience	18
Trait conscientiousness, thriving at work, career satisfaction and job satisfaction: Can supervisor support make a difference?	18
Individual differences in if-then planning: Insights from the development and application of the If-Then Planning Scale (ITPS)	18
Is psychological flexibility a mediator between perceived stress and general anxiety or depression among suspected patients of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?	18
Extending Steinberg's adolescent model of risk taking to the explanation of crime and delinquency: Are impulsivity and sensation seeking enough?	18
A meta-analytic review of emotional intelligence in gifted individuals: A multilevel analysis	18
Hiding Instagram Likes: Effects on negative affect and loneliness	18
Prospective associations between intolerance of uncertainty and psychopathology	18
The relationship between shyness and aggression: The multiple mediation of peer victimization and security and the moderation of parent–child attachment	18
Followers' strengths-based leadership and strengths use of followers: The roles of trait emotional intelligence and role overload	18
More than a preference for online social interaction: Vulnerable narcissism and phubbing	18
Gender differences in the mediating effects of emotion-regulation strategies: Forgiveness and depression among adolescents	18
Personality regulation of decisions on physical distancing: Cross-cultural comparison (Russia, Azerbaijan, China)	18
Moral perfectionism and online prosocial behavior: The mediating role of moral identity and the moderating role of online interpersonal trust	18
Factors influencing mental health among American youth in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic	18
Personality traits and stress perception as predictors of students' online engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Personality, Behavioral strengths and difficulties and performance of adolescents with high achievements in science, literature, art and sports	17
Is Covid-19 a natural event? Covid-19 pandemic and conspiracy beliefs	17
Higher-order personality factors and leadership outcomes: A meta-analysis	17
Honesty-Humility and dispositional awe in Confucian culture: The mediating role of Zhong-Yong thinking style	17
Primary and secondary psychopathy relate to lower cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of the Dark Triad and emotion regulation processes	17
Failure to replicate moral licensing and moral cleansing in an online experiment	17
The relationship between components of neuroticism and problematic smartphone use in adolescents: A network analysis	17
Meta-analytic relations between thinking styles and intelligence	17
The association of optimism and pessimism and all-cause mortality: A systematic review	17
When enough is not enough: Overearning as a manifestation of dispositional greed	17
Perfectionism and interpersonal problems revisited	17
Attachment styles, negotiation of goal conflict, and perceived partner support during COVID-19	17