Personality and Individual Differences

Article	Citations
Fearing the disease or the vaccine: The case of COVID-19	320
Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness	283
Who complies with the restrictions to reduce the spread of COVID-19?: Personality and perceptions of the COVID-19 situation	241
The development and initial tests for the psychometric properties of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-S)	236
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective mental well-being: The interplay of perceived threat, future anxiety and resilience	200
COVID-19-related conspiracy beliefs and their relationship with perceived stress and pre-existing conspiracy beliefs	176
Personality and perceived stress during COVID-19 pandemic: Testing the mediating role of perceived threat and efficacy	168
Political polarization on COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States	162
Adaptive and maladaptive behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of Dark Triad traits, collective narcissism, and health beliefs	143
Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness	140
Emotional responses to prosocial messages increase willingness to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic	129
COVID-19 related loneliness and sleep problems in older adults: Worries and resilience as potential moderators	126
Optimism-pessimism, conspiracy theories and general trust as factors contributing to COVID-19 related behavior – A cross-cultural study	120
Procrastination predicts online self-regulated learning and online learning ineffectiveness during the coronavirus lockdown	115
Behavioral immune system linked to responses to the threat of COVID-19	113
Keep your (social) distance: Pathogen concerns and social perception in the time of COVID-19	110
Personal economic anxiety in response to COVID-19	109
The impact of fear and anxiety of Covid-19 on life satisfaction: Psychological distress and sleep disturbance as mediators	107
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	100
Compliance with containment measures to the COVID-19 pandemic over time: Do antisocial traits matter?	88
Trait emotional intelligence and emotional experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Poland: A daily diary study	85
Predictors of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland	83
Gender, face mask perceptions, and face mask wearing: Are men being dangerous during the COVID-19 pandemic?	83
COVID-19-related stress and anxiety are associated with negative body image in adults from the United Kingdom	82

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	82
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	80
The influence of demographics and personality on COVID-19 coping in young adults	71
Modeling consumers' information acquisition and 5G technology utilization: Is personality relevant?	67
Self-compassion, intolerance of uncertainty, fear of COVID-19, and well-being: A serial mediation investigation	66
From entrepreneurial passion to entrepreneurial intentions: The role of entrepreneurial passion, innovativeness, and curiosity in driving entrepreneurial intentions	66
Deviation from the balanced time perspective: A systematic review of empirical relationships with psychological variables	64
Boredom in the COVID-19 pandemic: Trait boredom proneness, the desire to act, and rule-breaking	64
“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	63
A meta-analytic review of the relationship between dispositional gratitude and well-being	61
Self-compassion and life-satisfaction among Chinese self-quarantined residents during COVID-19 pandemic: A moderated mediation model of positive coping and gender	60
It's a conspiracy: Covid-19 conspiracies link to psychopathy, Machiavellianism and collective narcissism	59
Boss phubbing, trust, job satisfaction and employee performance	59
Individual differences in Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Age, gender, and the Big Five personality trait domains, facets, and items	59
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	58
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	56
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and intention to get vaccinated. The serial mediation roles of existential anxiety and conspiracy beliefs	55
The relationship of compassion and self-compassion with personality and emotional intelligence	53
Evolution and revolution: Personality research for the coming world of robots, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems	53
Dysfunctional personality features, non-scientifically supported causal beliefs, and emotional problems during the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy	52
Are personality measures valid for different populations? A systematic review of measurement invariance across cultures, gender, and age	52
The Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale Revised (5DCR): Briefer subscales while separating overt and covert social curiosity	51
COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: Relations with anxiety, quality of life, and schemas	51
Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and containment-related behaviour: The role of political trust	51
An explorative study of the individual differences associated with consumer stockpiling during the early stages of the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak in Europe	50
Telecommuting during the coronavirus pandemic: Future time orientation as a mediator between proactive coping and perceived work productivity in two cultural samples	50
Human responses to Covid-19: The role of optimism bias, perceived severity, and anxiety	48
What factors underlie attitudes regarding protective mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic?	48
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) and posttraumatic depreciation (PTD) across ten countries: Global validation of the PTG-PTD theoretical model	48
Right-wing Authoritarianism, Left-wing Authoritarianism, and pandemic-mitigation authoritarianism	47
Exploring the association between compliance with measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and big five traits with Bayesian generalized linear model	47
Makeup usage in women as a tactic to attract mates and compete with rivals	46
Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic	46
Association of smartphone use with depression, anxiety, stress, sleep quality, and internet addiction. Empirical evidence from a smartphone application	46
Importance of work characteristics affects job performance: The mediating role of individual dispositions on the work design-performance relationships	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	44
The role of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and social anxiety in problematic smartphone and social media use	44
Social distancing is the right thing to do: Dark Triad behavioral correlates in the COVID-19 quarantine	44
Mindfulness training on the resilience of adolescents under the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent growth curve analysis	44
Trait mindfulness is negatively associated with distress related to COVID-19	43
Individual differences, personality, social, family and work variables on mental health during COVID-19 outbreak in Spain	43
Childhood maltreatment and aggression: The mediating roles of hostile attribution bias and anger rumination	42
Why are conservatives less concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19) than liberals? Comparing political, experiential, and partisan messaging explanations	42
COVID-19 fear, stress, sleep quality and coping activities during lockdown, and personality traits: A person-centered approach analysis	42
Greater belief in science predicts mask-wearing behavior during COVID-19	41
Predictors of emotional distress during the COVID-19 pandemic; a Croatian study	40
What makes an engaged employee? A facet-level approach to trait emotional intelligence as a predictor of employee engagement	40
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	39

Family functioning and mental health among secondary vocational students during the COVID-19 epidemic: A moderated mediation model	39
Public attention about COVID-19 on social media: An investigation based on data mining and text analysis	38
Callous-Unemotional traits and cyberbullying perpetration: The mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating role of empathy	38
Personality traits and conflict resolution styles: A meta-analysis	38
Risk-taking, resilience, and state anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A coming of (old) age story	38
Looking beyond the Big Five: A selective review of alternatives to the Big Five model of personality	37
Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Culture, COVID-19, and collectivism: A paradox of American exceptionalism?	37
Longitudinal study on affect, psychological well-being, depression, mental and physical health, prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	36
Mother phubbing and adolescent academic burnout: The mediating role of mental health and the moderating role of agreeableness and neuroticism	36
Do self-report measures of alexithymia measure alexithymia or general psychological distress? A factor analytic examination across five samples	36
Self-efficacy and mental health problems during COVID-19 pandemic: A multiple mediation model based on the Health Belief Model	36
Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being	36
Meaning making helps cope with COVID-19: A longitudinal study	35
Loneliness and emotion regulation	35
The link between ego-resiliency, social support, SARS-CoV-2 anxiety and trauma effects. Polish adaptation of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	35
Does religion predict coronavirus conspiracy beliefs? Centrality of religiosity, religious fundamentalism, and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs	35
Curiosity has comprehensive benefits in the workplace: Developing and validating a multidimensional workplace curiosity scale in United States and German employees	35
The role of uncertainty tolerance and meaning in life on depression and anxiety throughout Covid-19 pandemic	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
Psychological entitlement predicts noncompliance with the health guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic	34
How threat perceptions relate to learning and conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19: Evidence from a panel study	34
Birds of a feather are persuaded together: Perceived source credibility mediates the effect of political bias on misinformation susceptibility	34
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
Intergenerational conflicts of interest and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Assessing alexithymia: Psychometric properties of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire and 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in United States adults	34
Somebody that I (used to) know: Gender and dimensions of dark personality traits as predictors of intimate partner cyberstalking	34
Revisiting the social stigma of loneliness	33
How is extraversion related to social media use? A literature review	33
Personality factors and self-reported political news consumption predict susceptibility to political fake news	32
Social cognition and sex: Are men and women really different?	32
Is the COVID-19 pandemic even darker for some? Examining dark personality and affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	32
Growth mindset of socioeconomic status boosts subjective well-being: A longitudinal study	32
Relationship between mindfulness, depression, anxiety and stress: Mediating role of self-efficacy	32
A neglected reality of mass media during COVID-19: Effect of pandemic news on individual's positive and negative emotion and psychological resilience	31
Exploring the persome: The power of the item in understanding personality structure	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
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
Individuals with dark traits have the ability but not the disposition to empathize	30
The role of ideological attitudes in responses to COVID-19 threat and government restrictions in Australia	30
Wearing mask hinders emotion recognition, but enhances perception of attractiveness	30
The behavioral immune system and conservatism as predictors of disease-avoidant attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Existential isolation, loneliness, and attachment in young adults	29
Conspiracy beliefs and trust as determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Bali, Indonesia: Cross-sectional study	29
Politics of COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Left/right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and libertarianism	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
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
Incorporating personality in user interface design: A review	28
Zooming their way through university: Which Big 5 traits facilitated students' adjustment to online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
The impacts of a COVID-19 epidemic focus and general belief in a just world on individual emotions	27
Mindfulness mediates the relationship between cognitive reappraisal and resilience in higher education students	27
Understanding the overlap and differences in terms describing patterns of maladaptive avoidance and intolerance of negative emotional states	27
Big Five personality traits, dispositional affect, and financial satisfaction among older adults	27
The role of emotional intelligence and self-care in the stress perception during COVID-19 outbreak: An intercultural moderated mediation analysis	27
Resting state frontal alpha asymmetry predicts emotion regulation difficulties in impulse control	26
Perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and adolescents' depression symptoms: The moderating role of character strengths	26
Investigating how individual differences influence responses to the COVID-19 crisis: The role of maladaptive and five-factor personality traits	26
Attachment anxiety predicts worse mental health outcomes during COVID-19: Evidence from two studies	26
Gender as a moderator between Present-Hedonistic time perspective and depressive symptoms or stress during COVID-19 lock-down	26
The relationship of perceived social support to feelings of hopelessness under COVID-19 pandemic: The effects of epidemic risk and meaning in life	26
Person and situation effects in predicting outgroup prejudice and avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Burnout from emotion regulation at work: The moderating role of gratitude	25
Parental warmth, rejection, and creativity: The mediating roles of openness and dark personality traits	25
Neuroticism and cyberchondria: The mediating role of intolerance of uncertainty and defensive pessimism	25
Individualism-collectivism during the COVID-19 pandemic: A field study testing the pathogen stress hypothesis of individualism-collectivism in Korea	25
The role of passion and emotions in academic procrastination during a pandemic (COVID-19)	25
Big Five traits, approach-avoidance motivation, concerns and adherence with COVID-19 prevention guidelines during the peak of pandemic in Croatia	25
The importance of being resilient: Psychological well-being, job autonomy, and self-esteem of organization managers	25
Exploring the relationship between core self-evaluation and strengths use: The perspective of emotion	25
Do psychological strengths protect college students confined by COVID-19 to emotional distress? The role of gender	25
To be Shy or avoidant? Exploring the longitudinal association between attachment and depressive symptoms among left-behind adolescents in rural China	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
Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and narcissistic traits	24
Understanding neuroticism and social media: A systematic review	24

The associations between Big Five personality traits, gaming motives, and self-reported time spent gaming	24
Creativity myths: Prevalence and correlates of misconceptions on creativity	24
Personality and sport performance: The role of perfectionism, Big Five traits, and anticipated performance in predicting the results of distance running competitions	24
The incremental effect of Dark personality over the Big Five in workplace bullying: Evidence from perpetrators and targets	24
Dark Triad and instigated incivility: The moderating role of workplace spirituality	24
Perfectionism is adaptive and maladaptive, but what's the combined effect?	24
Actors of the most fiendish character: Explaining the associations between the Dark Tetrad and conspiracist ideation	24
Centrality and redundancy of the Dark Tetrad traits	24
Personality and the perception of situations: The Big Five and Dark Triad traits	24
“What's next?” Individual differences in expected repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic	24
Big Five traits predict stress and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for the role of neuroticism	23
“How to unlock myself from boredom?” The role of mindfulness and a dual awareness- and action-oriented pathway during the COVID-19 lockdown	23
Information quality, media richness, and negative coping: A daily research during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
The COVID-19 pandemic as an impetus for pro-environmental behaviours: The role of causal attribution	23
Firstborns buy better for the greater good: Birth order differences in green consumption values	23
State loneliness is associated with emotional hypervigilance in daily life: A network analysis	23
The tendency for interpersonal victimhood: The personality construct and its consequences	23
How does interpersonal emotion regulation explain psychological distress? The roles of attachment style and social support	23
Who cheats? An examination of light and dark personality traits as predictors of infidelity	23
Mindfulness, self-compassion and wellbeing	23
Six dimensions of sexual disgust	23
Relationships between the big five personality characteristics and performance on behavioral decision making tasks	23
Editorial to special issue “Personality and individual differences and healthy organizations”	22
Grandiose narcissists and decision making: Impulsive, overconfident, and skeptical of experts–but seldom in doubt	22
Integration of balanced time perspective and time perception: The role of executive control and neuroticism	22
A multifunction approach to assessing Aristotelian phronesis (practical wisdom)	22
Unmasking the psychology of recognizing emotions of people wearing masks: The role of empathizing, systemizing, and autistic traits	22
The relationship of personality and behavior change in a physical activity intervention: The role of conscientiousness and healthy neuroticism	22
Right-wing political orientation, national identification and the acceptance of immigrants and minorities	22
A compensatory model to understand dysfunctional personality traits in problematic gaming: The role of vulnerable narcissism	22
Gender differences in creativity: Examining the greater male variability hypothesis in different domains and tasks	22
Gender, behavioral inhibition/activation, and emotional reactions to negative natural and social events	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
Individual-level differences in negativity biases in news selection	21
Big Five predictors of pandemic-related behavior and emotions in the first and second COVID-19 pandemic wave in Slovakia	21
A serial mediation model testing growth mindset, life satisfaction, and perceived distress as predictors of perseverance of effort	21
Relational meaning in life as a predictor of interpersonal well-being: A prospective analysis	21
Unmasking gender differences in narcissism within intimate partner violence	21
Views of sexual assault following #MeToo: The role of gender and individual differences	21
Worker resilience during the COVID-19 crisis: The role of core beliefs challenge, emotion regulation, and family strain	21
Personality profiles based on the FFM: A systematic review with a person-centered approach	21
Influence of grit on lifestyle factors during the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of adults in the United States	21
Impulsivity traits and Facebook addiction in young people and the potential mediating role of coping styles	20
Emotion regulation and empathic abilities in young adults: The role of attachment styles	20
We're all in this together, but for different reasons: Social values and social actions that affect COVID-19 preventative behaviors	20
General versus specific personality traits for predicting entrepreneurship	20
An examination of two major constructs of cross-cultural competence: Cultural intelligence and intercultural competence	20
Gender, sexual orientation and type of relationship influence individual differences in jealousy: A large Brazilian sample	20
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	20
For whom, and for what, is experience sampling more accurate than retrospective report?	20
Light and dark trait subtypes of human personality – A multi-study person-centered approach	20
The role of self-compassion in athlete mindfulness and burnout: Examination of the effects of gender differences	20
Dark personality traits, political values, and prejudice: Testing a dual process model of prejudice towards refugees	20
Follow or not follow?: The relationship between psychological entitlement and compliance with preventive measures to the COVID-19	19
Policymakers as safe havens: The relationship between adult attachment style, COVID-19 fear, and regulation compliance	19
Why older employees engage in less counterproductive work behavior and in more organizational citizenship behavior: Examining the role of the HEXACO personality traits	19
Brief screening measures of mental health for war-related dysfunctional anxiety and negative persistent thinking	19
The role of impulsivity and delay discounting in student compliance with COVID-19 protective measures	19
Need for cognitive closure predicts stress and anxiety of college students during COVID-19 pandemic	19
Shedding light on the Light Triad: Further evidence on structural, construct, and predictive validity of the Light Triad	19
The relationship between emotional intelligence and eating disorders or disordered eating behaviors: A meta-analysis	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
Trait self-construal, inclusion of others in the self and self-control predict stay-at-home adherence during COVID-19	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
An affect in its own right: Investigating the relationship of social safeness with positive and negative affect	19
Dark personalities and Bitcoin®: The influence of the Dark Tetrad on cryptocurrency attitude and buying intention	18
The psychology of morbid curiosity: Development and initial validation of the morbid curiosity scale	18
Emotional intelligence and performance in a stressful task: The mediating role of self-efficacy	18
The effect of ego-resiliency and COVID-19-related stress on mental health among the Japanese population	18
Prospective associations between intolerance of uncertainty and psychopathology	18
Moral perfectionism and online prosocial behavior: The mediating role of moral identity and the moderating role of online interpersonal trust	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
Laughing all the way to the lockdown: On humor, optimism, and well-being during COVID-19	18
Predictors of online compulsive buying: The role of personality and mindfulness	18
Gender differences in the mediating effects of emotion-regulation strategies: Forgiveness and depression among adolescents	18
The relationship between shyness and aggression: The multiple mediation of peer victimization and security and the moderation of parent–child attachment	18
Factors influencing mental health among American youth in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic	18
More than a preference for online social interaction: Vulnerable narcissism and phubbing	18
Personality traits and stress perception as predictors of students' online engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
A meta-analytic review of emotional intelligence in gifted individuals: A multilevel analysis	18
Personality regulation of decisions on physical distancing: Cross-cultural comparison (Russia, Azerbaijan, China)	18
Being future-conscious during a global crisis: The protective effect of heightened Futures Consciousness in the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Personality, Behavioral strengths and difficulties and performance of adolescents with high achievements in science, literature, art and sports	17
Higher-order personality factors and leadership outcomes: A meta-analysis	17
Perfectionism and interpersonal problems revisited	17
Dispositional greed predicts benign and malicious envy	17
Is Covid-19 a natural event? Covid-19 pandemic and conspiracy beliefs	17
The relationship between components of neuroticism and problematic smartphone use in adolescents: A network analysis	17
Extending Steinberg's adolescent model of risk taking to the explanation of crime and delinquency: Are impulsivity and sensation seeking enough?	17
The association of optimism and pessimism and all-cause mortality: A systematic review	17
Sensory-processing sensitivity and COVID-19 stress in a young population: The mediating role of resilience	17
Five Factor Model personality traits and subjective cognitive failures	17