Personality and Individual Differences

Article	Citations
Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness	365
Fearing the disease or the vaccine: The case of COVID-19	339
Who complies with the restrictions to reduce the spread of COVID-19?: Personality and perceptions of the COVID-19 situation	251
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on subjective mental well-being: The interplay of perceived threat, future anxiety and resilience	217
Political polarization on COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States	198
Personality and perceived stress during COVID-19 pandemic: Testing the mediating role of perceived threat and efficacy	193
COVID-19-related conspiracy beliefs and their relationship with perceived stress and pre-existing conspiracy beliefs	191
Adaptive and maladaptive behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The roles of Dark Triad traits, collective narcissism, and health beliefs	152
Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness	148
Emotional responses to prosocial messages increase willingness to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic	137
COVID-19 related loneliness and sleep problems in older adults: Worries and resilience as potential moderators	136
Procrastination predicts online self-regulated learning and online learning ineffectiveness during the coronavirus lockdown	133
Optimism-pessimism, conspiracy theories and general trust as factors contributing to COVID-19 related behavior – A cross-cultural study	128
The impact of fear and anxiety of Covid-19 on life satisfaction: Psychological distress and sleep disturbance as mediators	126
Behavioral immune system linked to responses to the threat of COVID-19	124
Keep your (social) distance: Pathogen concerns and social perception in the time of COVID-19	122
Personal economic anxiety in response to COVID-19	116
Content matters. Different predictors and social consequences of general and government-related conspiracy theories on COVID-19	110
Perceived vulnerability to disease and attitudes towards public health measures: COVID-19 in Flanders, Belgium	109
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	100
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	94
Gender, face mask perceptions, and face mask wearing: Are men being dangerous during the COVID-19 pandemic?	92
Compliance with containment measures to the COVID-19 pandemic over time: Do antisocial traits matter?	92
Trait emotional intelligence and emotional experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Poland: A daily diary study	90
Predictors of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland	88

COVID-19-related stress and anxiety are associated with negative body image in adults from the United Kingdom	87
The influence of demographics and personality on COVID-19 coping in young adults	80
Self-compassion, intolerance of uncertainty, fear of COVID-19, and well-being: A serial mediation investigation	77
Individual differences in Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Age, gender, and the Big Five personality trait domains, facets, and items	76
Modeling consumers' information acquisition and 5G technology utilization: Is personality relevant?	70
Evolution and revolution: Personality research for the coming world of robots, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems	69
“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	69
Association of smartphone use with depression, anxiety, stress, sleep quality, and internet addiction. Empirical evidence from a smartphone application	68
Boredom in the COVID-19 pandemic: Trait boredom proneness, the desire to act, and rule-breaking	67
Moral foundations underlying behavioral compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic	66
Self-compassion and life-satisfaction among Chinese self-quarantined residents during COVID-19 pandemic: A moderated mediation model of positive coping and gender	66
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and intention to get vaccinated. The serial mediation roles of existential anxiety and conspiracy beliefs	65
It's a conspiracy: Covid-19 conspiracies link to psychopathy, Machiavellianism and collective narcissism	64
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	64
The role of online social comparison as a protective factor for psychological wellbeing: A longitudinal study during the COVID-19 quarantine	62
The relationship of compassion and self-compassion with personality and emotional intelligence	62
What factors underlie attitudes regarding protective mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic?	59
COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs: Relations with anxiety, quality of life, and schemas	59
Covid-19 conspiracy beliefs and containment-related behaviour: The role of political trust	58
Mindfulness training on the resilience of adolescents under the COVID-19 epidemic: A latent growth curve analysis	58
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	57
Telecommuting during the coronavirus pandemic: Future time orientation as a mediator between proactive coping and perceived work productivity in two cultural samples	56
Right-wing Authoritarianism, Left-wing Authoritarianism, and pandemic-mitigation authoritarianism	55
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) and posttraumatic depreciation (PTD) across ten countries: Global validation of the PTG-PTD theoretical model	55
Human responses to Covid-19: The role of optimism bias, perceived severity, and anxiety	55
An explorative study of the individual differences associated with consumer stockpiling during the early stages of the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak in Europe	54
Looking beyond the Big Five: A selective review of alternatives to the Big Five model of personality	53
COVID-19 fear, stress, sleep quality and coping activities during lockdown, and personality traits: A person-centered approach analysis	52
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	52
Big Five traits as predictors of perceived stressfulness of the COVID-19 pandemic	52
The role of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and social anxiety in problematic smartphone and social media use	51
Why are conservatives less concerned about the coronavirus (COVID-19) than liberals? Comparing political, experiential, and partisan messaging explanations	51
Exploring the association between compliance with measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and big five traits with Bayesian generalized linear model	50
Birds of a feather are persuaded together: Perceived source credibility mediates the effect of political bias on misinformation susceptibility	50
Predictors of emotional distress during the COVID-19 pandemic; a Croatian study	49
Loneliness and emotion regulation	49
Social distancing is the right thing to do: Dark Triad behavioral correlates in the COVID-19 quarantine	49
Trait mindfulness is negatively associated with distress related to COVID-19	47
Greater belief in science predicts mask-wearing behavior during COVID-19	46
The role of uncertainty tolerance and meaning in life on depression and anxiety throughout Covid-19 pandemic	46
Self-efficacy and mental health problems during COVID-19 pandemic: A multiple mediation model based on the Health Belief Model	45
Culture, COVID-19, and collectivism: A paradox of American exceptionalism?	45
Meaning making helps cope with COVID-19: A longitudinal study	44
Public attention about COVID-19 on social media: An investigation based on data mining and text analysis	44
Relationship between mindfulness, depression, anxiety and stress: Mediating role of self-efficacy	44
Risk-taking, resilience, and state anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A coming of (old) age story	44
Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic	43
Family functioning and mental health among secondary vocational students during the COVID-19 epidemic: A moderated mediation model	43
Does religion predict coronavirus conspiracy beliefs? Centrality of religiosity, religious fundamentalism, and COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs	43
Individual differences, personality, social, family and work variables on mental health during COVID-19 outbreak in Spain	42

Coping with COVID-19 – Longitudinal analysis of coping strategies and the role of trait mindfulness in mental well-being	42
Personality factors and self-reported political news consumption predict susceptibility to political fake news	40
Revisiting the social stigma of loneliness	40
The role of ideological attitudes in responses to COVID-19 threat and government restrictions in Australia	39
How threat perceptions relate to learning and conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19: Evidence from a panel study	38
The link between ego-resiliency, social support, SARS-CoV-2 anxiety and trauma effects. Polish adaptation of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	38
Assessing alexithymia: Psychometric properties of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire and 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in United States adults	38
Psychological entitlement predicts noncompliance with the health guidelines of the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Exploring the persome: The power of the item in understanding personality structure	38
A neglected reality of mass media during COVID-19: Effect of pandemic news on individual's positive and negative emotion and psychological resilience	38
Intergenerational conflicts of interest and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Growth mindset of socioeconomic status boosts subjective well-being: A longitudinal study	37
Longitudinal study on affect, psychological well-being, depression, mental and physical health, prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	37
The structure of the Dark Triad traits: A network analysis	36
The impact of mortality salience on quantified self behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Anxiety associated with COVID-19 and concerns about death: Impacts on psychological well-being	35
The behavioral immune system and conservatism as predictors of disease-avoidant attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Big Five traits predict stress and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for the role of neuroticism	35
Politics of COVID-19 vaccine mandates: Left/right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and libertarianism	35
Coping profiles and their association with psychological functioning: A latent profile analysis of coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
Perceived stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and adolescents' depression symptoms: The moderating role of character strengths	35
Creativity myths: Prevalence and correlates of misconceptions on creativity	35
What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality	35
The relationship of perceived social support to feelings of hopelessness under COVID-19 pandemic: The effects of epidemic risk and meaning in life	34
Is the COVID-19 pandemic even darker for some? Examining dark personality and affective, cognitive, and behavioral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Prosocial responses to COVID-19: Examining the role of gratitude, fairness and legacy motives	33
Zooming their way through university: Which Big 5 traits facilitated students' adjustment to online courses during the COVID-19 pandemic	33
Using the International Cognitive Ability Resource as an open source tool to explore individual differences in cognitive ability	33
Wearing mask hinders emotion recognition, but enhances perception of attractiveness	33
Dark personalities and Bitcoin®: The influence of the Dark Tetrad on cryptocurrency attitude and buying intention	33
COVID-19: How the stress generated by the pandemic may affect work performance through the moderating role of emotional intelligence	33
Predicting contract cheating intentions: Dark personality traits, attitudes, norms, and anticipated guilt and shame	32
The role of emotional intelligence and self-care in the stress perception during COVID-19 outbreak: An intercultural moderated mediation analysis	32
Moral decision-making and support for safety procedures amid the COVID-19 pandemic	32
A multifunction approach to assessing Aristotelian phronesis (practical wisdom)	32
Attachment anxiety predicts worse mental health outcomes during COVID-19: Evidence from two studies	31
Investigating how individual differences influence responses to the COVID-19 crisis: The role of maladaptive and five-factor personality traits	31
Grandiose narcissists and decision making: Impulsive, overconfident, and skeptical of experts–but seldom in doubt	31
Big Five traits, approach-avoidance motivation, concerns and adherence with COVID-19 prevention guidelines during the peak of pandemic in Croatia	31
Considering sadism in the shadow of the Dark Triad traits: A meta-analytic review of the Dark Tetrad	31
The impacts of a COVID-19 epidemic focus and general belief in a just world on individual emotions	30
Mindfulness, self-compassion and wellbeing	30
The role of passion and emotions in academic procrastination during a pandemic (COVID-19)	30
Parental warmth, rejection, and creativity: The mediating roles of openness and dark personality traits	30
Conspiracy beliefs and trust as determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Bali, Indonesia: Cross-sectional study	30
No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak	30
Gender differences in creativity: Examining the greater male variability hypothesis in different domains and tasks	29
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	29
Right-wing political orientation, national identification and the acceptance of immigrants and minorities	29
Gender as a moderator between Present-Hedonistic time perspective and depressive symptoms or stress during COVID-19 lock-down	29
Unmasking the psychology of recognizing emotions of people wearing masks: The role of empathizing, systemizing, and autistic traits	29
Understanding neuroticism and social media: A systematic review	29
Personality profiles based on the FFM: A systematic review with a person-centered approach	29
The associations between Big Five personality traits, gaming motives, and self-reported time spent gaming	29
Big Five personality traits, dispositional affect, and financial satisfaction among older adults	29
The incremental effect of Dark personality over the Big Five in workplace bullying: Evidence from perpetrators and targets	29
Individualism-collectivism during the COVID-19 pandemic: A field study testing the pathogen stress hypothesis of individualism-collectivism in Korea	28
A serial mediation model testing growth mindset, life satisfaction, and perceived distress as predictors of perseverance of effort	28
The relationship of personality and behavior change in a physical activity intervention: The role of conscientiousness and healthy neuroticism	28
Actors of the most fiendish character: Explaining the associations between the Dark Tetrad and conspiracist ideation	28
The COVID-19 pandemic as an impetus for pro-environmental behaviours: The role of causal attribution	28
Unmasking gender differences in narcissism within intimate partner violence	28
Fooled by the fakes: Cognitive differences in perceived claim accuracy and sharing intention of non-political deepfakes	28
Dark Triad and instigated incivility: The moderating role of workplace spirituality	28
Why older employees engage in less counterproductive work behavior and in more organizational citizenship behavior: Examining the role of the HEXACO personality traits	27
Information quality, media richness, and negative coping: A daily research during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
“How to unlock myself from boredom?” The role of mindfulness and a dual awareness- and action-oriented pathway during the COVID-19 lockdown	27
Person and situation effects in predicting outgroup prejudice and avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Brief screening measures of mental health for war-related dysfunctional anxiety and negative persistent thinking	27
Views of sexual assault following #MeToo: The role of gender and individual differences	26
How does interpersonal emotion regulation explain psychological distress? The roles of attachment style and social support	26
“What's next?” Individual differences in expected repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Personality and sport performance: The role of perfectionism, Big Five traits, and anticipated performance in predicting the results of distance running competitions	26
Worker resilience during the COVID-19 crisis: The role of core beliefs challenge, emotion regulation, and family strain	26
Influence of grit on lifestyle factors during the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of adults in the United States	26
Perceived susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and narcissistic traits	26
Do psychological strengths protect college students confined by COVID-19 to emotional distress? The role of gender	26
Firstborns buy better for the greater good: Birth order differences in green consumption values	26
Big Five predictors of pandemic-related behavior and emotions in the first and second COVID-19 pandemic wave in Slovakia	25
The effect of ego-resiliency and COVID-19-related stress on mental health among the Japanese population	25

Shedding light on the Light Triad: Further evidence on structural, construct, and predictive validity of the Light Triad	25
The many faces of dark personalities: An examination of the Dark Triad structure using psychometric network analysis	25
Mindfulness and life satisfaction: The moderating effect of self-control and the moderated moderating effect of resilience	24
General versus specific personality traits for predicting entrepreneurship	24
Primary and secondary psychopathy relate to lower cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of the Dark Triad and emotion regulation processes	24
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	24
Is psychological flexibility a mediator between perceived stress and general anxiety or depression among suspected patients of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19)?	24
Hope, future work self and life satisfaction among vocational high school students in China: The roles of career adaptability and academic self-efficacy	24
Editorial to special issue “Personality and individual differences and healthy organizations”	24
Emotional intelligence and attachment in adulthood: A meta-analysis	24
We're all in this together, but for different reasons: Social values and social actions that affect COVID-19 preventative behaviors	23
The psychology of morbid curiosity: Development and initial validation of the morbid curiosity scale	23
Sensory-processing sensitivity and COVID-19 stress in a young population: The mediating role of resilience	23
Follow or not follow?: The relationship between psychological entitlement and compliance with preventive measures to the COVID-19	23
Need for cognitive closure predicts stress and anxiety of college students during COVID-19 pandemic	23
No feelings for me, no feelings for you: A meta-analysis on alexithymia and empathy in psychopathy	23
Relational meaning in life as a predictor of interpersonal well-being: A prospective analysis	23
Social anxiety and subjective well-being among Chinese college students: A moderated mediation model	23
Associations of political orientation, xenophobia, right-wing authoritarianism, and concern of COVID-19: Cognitive responses to an actual pathogen threat	23
Being future-conscious during a global crisis: The protective effect of heightened Futures Consciousness in the COVID-19 pandemic	23
The role of self-compassion in athlete mindfulness and burnout: Examination of the effects of gender differences	23
Hope and post-stress growth during COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of perceived stress and the moderating role of empathy	23
I'm simply the best, better than all the rest: Narcissistic leaders and corporate fundraising success	22
Prospective associations between intolerance of uncertainty and psychopathology	22
The influence of personality traits on attitudes towards climate change – An exploratory study	22
The role of impulsivity and delay discounting in student compliance with COVID-19 protective measures	22
Predictors of online compulsive buying: The role of personality and mindfulness	22
The association between personality traits and hoarding behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	22
The relationship between emotional intelligence and eating disorders or disordered eating behaviors: A meta-analysis	22
How decisional and general procrastination relate to procrastination at work: An investigation of office and non-office workers	22
Dispositional greed predicts benign and malicious envy	22
Personality traits and stress perception as predictors of students' online engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Trait self-construal, inclusion of others in the self and self-control predict stay-at-home adherence during COVID-19	22
Followers' strengths-based leadership and strengths use of followers: The roles of trait emotional intelligence and role overload	22
Personality development from early childhood through adolescence	22
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	22
How is time perspective related to burnout and job satisfaction? A conservation of resources perspective	21
An affect in its own right: Investigating the relationship of social safeness with positive and negative affect	21
Trait conscientiousness, thriving at work, career satisfaction and job satisfaction: Can supervisor support make a difference?	21
Investigating tolerance of uncertainty, COVID-19 concern, and compliance with recommended behavior in four countries: The moderating role of mindfulness, trust in scientists, and power distance	21
Authentic inner compass, well-being, and prioritization of positivity and meaning among adolescents	21
Laughing all the way to the lockdown: On humor, optimism, and well-being during COVID-19	21
Dark personality traits, political values, and prejudice: Testing a dual process model of prejudice towards refugees	21
How is the life without unicorns? A within-individual study on the relationship between uncertainty and mental health indicators: The moderating role of neuroticism	21
The role of mindfulness on the relationship between daily micro-events and daily gratitude: A within-person analysis	21
Differentiating the traits of the Dark Tetrad in their linkages with humor styles, dispositions toward ridicule and laughter, and comic styles	21
Worried about being imperfect? The mediating effect of physical appearance perfectionism between Instagram addiction and body esteem	21
Awe of nature and well-being: Roles of nature connectedness and powerlessness	21
Neuroticism and internet addiction: What is next? A systematic conceptual review	20
Barriers and facilitators of willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19: Role of prosociality, authoritarianism and conspiracy mentality. A four-wave longitudinal study	20
The Dark Empath: Characterising dark traits in the presence of empathy	20
The association of optimism and pessimism and all-cause mortality: A systematic review	20
Hiding Instagram Likes: Effects on negative affect and loneliness	20
Policymakers as safe havens: The relationship between adult attachment style, COVID-19 fear, and regulation compliance	20
Coping, social support, and family quality of life for caregivers of individuals with autism: Meta-analytic structural equation modeling	20
A meta-analytic review of emotional intelligence in gifted individuals: A multilevel analysis	20
Cognitive emotion regulation strategies mediate the relationships between Dark Triad traits and negative emotional states experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Mindfulness as a mediator in the relationship between social media engagement and depression in young adults	20
Can personality traits be measured analyzing written language? A meta-analytic study on computational methods	20
Boredom affects sleep quality: The serial mediation effect of inattention and bedtime procrastination	19
Does emotional intelligence and resilience moderate the relationship between the Dark Triad and personal and work burnout?	19
Attachment styles, negotiation of goal conflict, and perceived partner support during COVID-19	19
More than a preference for online social interaction: Vulnerable narcissism and phubbing	19
Cultural intelligence, perceived inclusion, and cultural diversity in workgroups	19
Identification with all humanity and willingness to help people in COVID-19 affected countries: Testing a moderated mediation model	19
Factors influencing mental health among American youth in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic	19
Dark Tetrad personality traits and the propensity to lie across multiple contexts	19
The contribution Openness to Experience and its two aspects to the explanation of idea generation, evaluation and selection: A metacognitive perspective	19
Individual differences in if-then planning: Insights from the development and application of the If-Then Planning Scale (ITPS)	19
Self-estimates of abilities are a better reflection of individuals’ personality traits than of their abilities and are also strong predictors of professional interests	19
Personality, emotion and individual differences in response to online fraud	19
Anxiety and threat magnification in subjective and physiological responses of fear of heights induced by virtual reality	19
Approach and avoidance in Gray's, Higgins', and Elliot's perspectives: A theoretical comparison and integration of approach-avoidance in motivated behavior	18
Trait emotional intelligence and interpersonal relationships: Results from a 15-year longitudinal study	18
Patterns of cumulative continuity and maturity in personality and well-being: Evidence from a large longitudinal sample of adults	18
Examining the interplay of emotion regulation strategies, social stress, and gender in predicting life satisfaction of emerging adults	18
Deliberate and spontaneous mind wandering in Chinese students: Associations with mindfulness, affect, personality, and life satisfaction	18
On being “dark” and promiscuous: The Dark Triad traits, mate value, disgust, and sociosexuality	18
Empathy and expectations of others' willingness to help	18
Personality regulation of decisions on physical distancing: Cross-cultural comparison (Russia, Azerbaijan, China)	18
Individual differences in moral judgment predict attitudes towards mandatory vaccinations	18
The association between self-report and behavioural measure of attentional control: Evidence of no relationship between ACS scores and antisaccade performance	18
Group decision-making behavior in social dilemmas: Inter-brain synchrony and the predictive role of personality traits	18
Honesty-Humility and dispositional awe in Confucian culture: The mediating role of Zhong-Yong thinking style	18
Is Covid-19 a natural event? Covid-19 pandemic and conspiracy beliefs	18
Leader sensemaking style in response to crisis: Consequences and insights from the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Personality and perspicacity: Role of personality traits and cognitive ability in political misinformation discernment and sharing behavior	17
Perfectionism and interpersonal problems revisited	17
Meta-analytic relations between thinking styles and intelligence	17
The #MeTooLate Effect: Victim blame and trust denial for sexual harassment not immediately reported	17
The association between objective and subjective financial literacy: Failure to observe the Dunning-Kruger effect	17
Musical expertise and personality – differences related to occupational choice and instrument categories	17
Collective self-esteem and perceived stress among the non-infected general public in China during the 2019 coronavirus pandemic: A multiple mediation model	17
Developing a novel assessment of interpretation flexibility: Reliability, validity and clinical implications	17
The relationship between components of neuroticism and problematic smartphone use in adolescents: A network analysis	17