Personality Traits, Dispositional Positive Emotions, and Coping Strategies Among Affectees of COVID-19

Abstract

The present research aimed to investigate the role of personality traits, positive emotions and coping strategies among affectees of COVID-19. Moreover, it also focused to determine the role of demographics (gender, family system, work status, education, and care giver) across all study variables. Sample consisted of 200 COVID affectees including men and women with age between 19 to 55 years. Big Five Scale (John & Srivastava, 1999), Dispositional Positive Emotions Scale (Shiota et al., 2006) and Brief Cope Scale (Carver et al., 1989), were used to measure study variables. Results indicate that extraversion was negatively related with neuroticism. While extraversion and dispositional positive emotions were positively related with problem focused coping and negatively related with emotion focused coping. In addition, neuroticism was negatively related dispositional positive emotion and problem focused coping while positively related with emotion focused coping. It was also found that dispositional positive emotion was positively linked with problem focused coping and negatively related emotion focused coping. Gender difference revealed that women expressed more neuroticism and emotion focused coping, while men were higher on extraversion, dispositional positive emotions and problem focused coping. Significant group difference were also found on family system, work status, education and relation with care giver. Implications, limitations and suggestions for future research had also been discussed.