scholarly journals Who follows the rules during a crisis? Personality traits and trust as predictors of compliance with containment recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Schmeisser ◽  
Emma Renström ◽  
Hanna Bäck
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many governments tried to contain the spread of the virus by legally restricting social life or even by imposing national lock-downs. The Swedish government on the other hand, appealed to the individual’s self-responsibility to behave according to specific containment recommendations published by the Public Health Agency. It is thus important to understand which factors influence the extent to which individuals comply with recommended actions. While the Big Five personality traits may be of relevance for understanding compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic, previous studies provide mixed results. We argue that we need to consider the role of trust in authorities when analyzing the impact of personality traits on compliance. In analyses based on a large-scale representative survey (N=1034), we found that trust in the Public Health Agency is mediating the relationship between several Big Five traits and compliance, more specifically, Agreeableness, Neuroticism and Openness were only related to compliance when trust in the Public Health Agency was taken into account. This suggests that trust in authorities is an important factor to take into account when analyzing the relationship between personality traits and compliance.

scholarly journals Who Follows the Rules During a Crisis?—Personality Traits and Trust as Predictors of Compliance With Containment Recommendations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Schmeisser ◽  
Emma A. Renström ◽  
Hanna Bäck
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, many governments tried to contain the spread of the virus by legally restricting social life and imposing national lockdowns. The Swedish government did not enforce a national lockdown, but instead appealed to the individual’s self-responsibility to follow specific containment recommendations developed by the Swedish Public Health Agency. Sweden is thus an especially interesting case to study because of the potential influence of psychological and attitudinal individual-level factors that might contribute to compliance with containment recommendations. Drawing on previous literature on how individuals respond during health crises, we define and evaluate a mediation model that considers the role of personality traits and trust authorities to explain compliance. More specifically, we argue that we need to consider the role of trust in authorities to better understand the relationship between personality traits and compliance. In analyses based on a large-scale representative survey (N = 1,034), we find Conscientiousness to be directly linked to compliance, whereas Agreeableness, Neuroticism and Openness were indirectly related to compliance when trust in the Public Health Agency was taken into account.

scholarly journals Public Emotional Diffusion over COVID-19 Related Tweets Posted by Major Public Health Agency in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Haixu Xi ◽  
Chengzhi Zhang ◽  
Yi Zhao ◽  
Sheng He
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
Emotional Intensity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Measures ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Since the end of 2019, the ongoing of COVID-19 outbreak worldwide not only challenges the management capacity of governments on the public health emergency, but also tests the management capacity of governments on the public opinion and the governance capacity of dealing with social emergencies. To understand the impact on public emotion over COVID-19 related tweets posted by the major public health agency in the United States, this paper study the process and characteristics of public emotional diffusion in the tweets network by taking the four-official Twitter users of the public health system in the United States as an example. In this paper, we extract the interactions between tweets in the COVID-19-TweetIds dataset, draw the tweets diffusion network, propose a method to measure the characteristics of the emotional diffusion network, analyze the changes of the public emotional intensity and the proportion of emotional polarity, investigate the emotional influence of key nodes and users in the process of tweet emotional diffusion, and study the emotional diffusion of tweets of different tweeting time periods, topics and institutions. The results show that the emotional polarity of tweets has changed from negative to positive with the improvement of pandemic management measures. The public's emotional polarity on pandemic related topics tends to be negative, and the emotional intensity of management measures such as pandemic medical services turn from positive to negative to the greatest extent, while the emotional intensity of pandemic related knowledge changes the most. The tweets posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration of the United States have a broad impact on public emotions, and the emotional spread of tweets' polarity eventually forms a very close proportion of opposite emotions.

THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND THE BIG SIX VOCATIONAL INTERESTS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayiana Mitevska ◽  
◽  
Paulina Tsvetkova
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Big Six ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

"A central theme in the present study is the assumption that the influence on the human behavior is mediated by different internal processes in the career choice. Emotional intelligence is defined as a variable which is a cause for the relationship between personality traits and the choice of a certain career. Three causal paths to the dependent variable were tracked – a path to the direct impact of the emotional intelligence on the career choice, a path to the influence of personality traits on the emotional intelligence as well as a path to the impact of personality traits on the career choice via the emotional intelligence. The aim of the study is to show the mediating role of emotional intelligence in the relationship between personality traits and career choice. A total of 100 Bulgarian secondary and university students (42 males and 58 females), aged 17-40 years, were included in the research. The following measures were used for the purpose of the study - Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire – Short Form (TEIQue-SF), The Big five questionnaire and the Big six method for career choices. The Bulgarian version of the emotional intelligence questionnaire was translated and adapted for Bulgarian sociocultural context by Antonina Kardasheva (Kardasheva, 2012). The Big five questionnaire and the Big six method for career choices were adapted for Bulgarian conditions by S. Karabelyova (Karabelyova, 2015). The results showed that there was a direct positive impact of the emotional intelligence on the relationship between the enterprising type and conscientiousness, the artistic type and neuroticism and a negative impact on the relationship between the conventional type and extraversion. The conclusions derived from the study could be used for further psychological research in the field, as well as for enhancing the knowledge of one’s personality."

Gender inequities in the online dissemination of scholars’ work

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (39) ◽  
pp. e2102945118
Author(s):  
Orsolya Vásárhelyi ◽  
Igor Zakhlebin ◽  
Staša Milojević ◽  
Emőke-Ágnes Horvát
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Scientific Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Coauthorship Networks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Unbiased science dissemination has the potential to alleviate some of the known gender disparities in academia by exposing female scholars’ work to other scientists and the public. And yet, we lack comprehensive understanding of the relationship between gender and science dissemination online. Our large-scale analyses, encompassing half a million scholars, revealed that female scholars’ work is mentioned less frequently than male scholars’ work in all research areas. When exploring the characteristics associated with online success, we found that the impact of prior work, social capital, and gendered tie formation in coauthorship networks are linked with online success for men, but not for women—even in the areas with the highest female representation. These results suggest that while men’s scientific impact and collaboration networks are associated with higher visibility online, there are no universally identifiable facets associated with success for women. Our comprehensive empirical evidence indicates that the gender gap in online science dissemination is coupled with a lack of understanding the characteristics that are linked with female scholars’ success, which might hinder efforts to close the gender gap in visibility.

scholarly journals A guideline on how to synthesize knowledge by reviews at the Public Health Agency of Sweden

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Månsdotter ◽  
K Godoy ◽  
K Guldbrandsson ◽  
R Henriksson ◽  
S Löfdahl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Relationship Between Big Five Personality Traits and Media Multitasking Behavior of the Indian Sample

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
S. Shukla
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Big Five Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Media Multitasking ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Media multitasking (MMT) is a growing phenomenon among Indian college students. Previous studies on other nationalities highlight that user’s personality traits play an important role in engaging them in this behavior. Using a sample of Indian college students, this study examined the relationship between MMT and the Big Five personality traits. It also examined the impact of age on the dynamics between personality and MMT. Results suggested that after controlling the socio-demographic factors, traits like openness to experience, extraversion, and neuroticism are positively related with high MMT. However, these observations are found to be moderated by age. These findings may help designing separate intervention techniques for alleviating excessive MMT behavior for different age groups considering their personality traits.

scholarly journals Large outbreak of tularaemia, central Sweden, July to September 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rikard Dryselius ◽  
Marika Hjertqvist ◽  
Signar Mäkitalo ◽  
Anders Lindblom ◽  
Tobias Lilja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Public Health Agency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Outbreak

On 31 of July 2019, the Public Health Agency of Sweden was alerted about an increasing number of tularaemia cases in Gävleborg, a county in central Sweden. The number of cases increased thereafter peaking at about 150 reports of illnesses every week. As at 6 October, a total of 979 cases (734 laboratory-confirmed) have been reported, mainly from counties in central Sweden. The outbreak is now considered over (as at 14 October).

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