Individual Differences Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age, Gender, Personality, and Positive Psychology

Gloria Bernabe-Valero; David Melero-Fuentes; Irani I De Lima Argimon; Maria Gerbino

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644286

Individual Differences Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age, Gender, Personality, and Positive Psychology

Front Psychol. 2021 Mar 19:12:644286. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.644286. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Gloria Bernabe-Valero¹, David Melero-Fuentes², Irani I De Lima Argimon³, Maria Gerbino⁴

Affiliations

¹ Mind, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory (MEB Lab), Faculty of Psychology, Catholic University of Valencia Saint Vincent Martyr, Valencia, Spain.
² Information Science and Technology Group, Faculty of Psychology, Catholic University of Valencia Saint Vincent Martyr, Valencia, Spain.
³ Postgraduate Program in Psychology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Abstract

Research on individual differences in facing the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be crucial in order to design diverse and highly effective intervention strategies. This study uses a sample of 302 North American participants who were recruited through the crowdsourcing platform ProA; different profiles were established, profiling variables of interest in facing the COVID-19 outbreak. Socio-demographic and psychological (personality traits, gratitude, life purpose, and religiosity) variables were explored. These results are of interest if we want to deepen the study of individual differences at both a theoretical and applied level.

Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; crowdsourcing; gratitude; personality; positive psychology; profiles; purpose of life; religiosity.