Declining Influence of Personality in the Later Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Nationwide Longitudinal Data from Ukraine
Year: 2024

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars detected a significant association between personality traits and individual attitudes toward preventive policy measures. Policymakers were advised to take personality traits into account when designing targeted policies to curtail the spread of the virus. Few studies examined whether and to what extent personality traits predicted preventive behavior and attitudes in the later stages of the pandemic. We fill this gap using nationally representative panel