Personality and Attitudes Confronting Death Awareness During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy and Spain

Italy and Spain are two representative examples on strict lockdown last March 2020, also suffering a high rate of mortality in Europe. The aim of this study is to examine their attitudes confronting death awareness during the Covid-19 outbreak. Moreover, Personality was also considered. Different so...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychiatry 2021-02, Vol.12, p.627018-627018
Main Authors: Murphy, Mike, Moret-Tatay, Carmen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
cluster analysis
COVID-19
COVID-19 outbreak
death awareness
pandemic
personality
Psychiatry
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Summary:Italy and Spain are two representative examples on strict lockdown last March 2020, also suffering a high rate of mortality in Europe. The aim of this study is to examine their attitudes confronting death awareness during the Covid-19 outbreak. Moreover, Personality was also considered. Different sociodemographic, questions related to attitudes and the brief Big Five of Personality were employed in a cross-sectional design. The main results suggested that Personality traits were stable across countries. A relationship was found between Fear to contagious diseases and Neuroticism and other attitudes during the Covid-19 outbreak, and two different clusters were identified with regards to attitudes, however these did not differ on Personality. Finally, a Cluster group, Neuroticism, Age and Sense of belonging to the Country did predict Fear to contagious diseases. Of note, no differences were found across countries during grief.
ISSN:1664-0640
1664-0640
DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.627018