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Big Five personality traits and coping strategies of Italian university students during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave ntroduction: Little is known about the role personality traits may have played for university students in diminishing and compensating for the negative impact of COVID-19 in its e
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🎓 Italian university students' personality traits and coping strategies during COVID-19 were studied.
🧠 Conscientiousness, Open-Mindedness, and Agreeableness were the highest traits among students.
😔 Negative Emotionality was a risk factor, while Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Open-Mindedness were protective factors.
🔀 Students used adaptive coping strategies more frequently than maladaptive ones.
🎉 Extraversion played both a risk and protective role for students during the pandemic.
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- Big Five personality traits and coping strategies of Italian university students during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave
- ntroduction: Little is known about the role personality traits may have played for university students in diminishing and compensating for the negative impact of COVID-19 in its early phases, promoting adaptive coping. University students represent a population which was consistently obliged to follow social distance rules due to the early shift of...
- Results: Preliminarily, two Linear Mixed Models indicated that university students had higher scores in Conscientiousness, followed by Open-Mindedness, and then Agreeableness. These three traits were, in turn, higher than Extraversion and Negative Emotionality, which did not differ among them. Concerning coping, university students reacted more fre...
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