Pandemic prevention and personality psychology: Gender differences in preventive health behaviors during COVID-19 and the roles of agreeableness and conscientiousness

作     者：Tobias Otterbring Alexandra Festila 

作者机构：Department of ManagementUniversity of AgderKristiansandNorway FreelancerCopenhagenDenmark 

出 版 物：《Journal of Safety Science and Resilience》 (安全科学与韧性（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第3卷第1期

页      面：87-91页

核心收录：

学科分类：0402[教育学-心理学(可授教育学、理学学位）] 0303[法学-社会学] 0710[理学-生物学] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 10[医学] 

基　　金：supported by a grant awarded to the first author by the Aarhus University Research Foundation (Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond AUFF) 

主　　题：Covid-19 Pandemics Gender,personality Psychology Agreeableness Conscientiousness Preventive health behaviors 

摘      要：One of the greatest public health crises in recent times,the COVID-19 pandemic,has come with a myriad of challenges in terms of health communication and public cooperation to prevent the spread of the ***-derstanding which are the key determinants that make certain individuals more cooperative is key in effectively tackling pandemics and similar future *** the present study(N=800),we investigated whether gen-der differences in compliance with preventive health behaviors(PHB)at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic could be established,and,if so,whether the personality traits of agreeableness and conscientiousness could help explain this presumed *** with our theorizing,we found women to score higher than men on agreeableness and conscientiousness,and to be more willing to comply with a set of ***,both per-sonality traits were found to mediate the gender-compliance *** means that women’s greater compliance levels with PHB could,at least in part,be attributed to their higher agreeableness and conscientiousness scores.A greater understanding of the determinants of PHB in terms of gender and associated personality traits may help identify options for developing more effective communication campaigns,both in terms of communication channel selection and message content.