The study aimed to investigate the role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality in health-related behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., recommended health behaviors according to COVID-19 guidelines and engagement in pseudoscientific practices related to COVID-19. Basic personality space was defined by the HEXACO model complemented by Disintegration, which represents psychotic-like experiences and behaviors reconceptualized as a personality trait. Mediation analyses conducted on a convenient sample from the general population recruited via social media and by snowballing (N = 417) showed that engagement in pseudoscientific behaviors was predicted by high Disintegration. However, this relationship was entirely mediated by high experiential and low rational thinking styles. Adherence to health practices recommended by COVID-19 guidelines was predicted by high Honesty traits, while low Disintegration had both direct and indirect effects through conspiracy mentalit...y.
Personality and Individual Differences, 2021, 176, 110771-
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This is the peer‐reviewed version of the article: Lazarević, L. B.; Purić, D.; Teovanović, P.; Lukić, P.; Zupan, Z.; Knežević, G. What Drives Us to Be (Ir)Responsible for Our Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Role of Personality, Thinking Styles, and Conspiracy Mentality. Personality and Individual Differences 2021, 176, 110771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771
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AU - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
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AU - Teovanović, Predrag
AU - Lukić, Petar
AU - Zupan, Zorana
AU - Knežević, Goran
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AB - The study aimed to investigate the role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality in health-related behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., recommended health behaviors according to COVID-19 guidelines and engagement in pseudoscientific practices related to COVID-19. Basic personality space was defined by the HEXACO model complemented by Disintegration, which represents psychotic-like experiences and behaviors reconceptualized as a personality trait. Mediation analyses conducted on a convenient sample from the general population recruited via social media and by snowballing (N = 417) showed that engagement in pseudoscientific behaviors was predicted by high Disintegration. However, this relationship was entirely mediated by high experiential and low rational thinking styles. Adherence to health practices recommended by COVID-19 guidelines was predicted by high Honesty traits, while low Disintegration had both direct and indirect effects through conspiracy mentality.
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year = "2021",
abstract = "The study aimed to investigate the role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality in health-related behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e., recommended health behaviors according to COVID-19 guidelines and engagement in pseudoscientific practices related to COVID-19. Basic personality space was defined by the HEXACO model complemented by Disintegration, which represents psychotic-like experiences and behaviors reconceptualized as a personality trait. Mediation analyses conducted on a convenient sample from the general population recruited via social media and by snowballing (N = 417) showed that engagement in pseudoscientific behaviors was predicted by high Disintegration. However, this relationship was entirely mediated by high experiential and low rational thinking styles. Adherence to health practices recommended by COVID-19 guidelines was predicted by high Honesty traits, while low Disintegration had both direct and indirect effects through conspiracy mentality.",
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Lazarević, L. B., Purić, D., Teovanović, P., Lukić, P., Zupan, Z.,& Knežević, G.. (2021). What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality. in Personality and Individual Differences
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford., 176, 110771.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771
Lazarević LB, Purić D, Teovanović P, Lukić P, Zupan Z, Knežević G. What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality. in Personality and Individual Differences. 2021;176:110771.
doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771 .
Lazarević, Ljiljana B., Purić, Danka, Teovanović, Predrag, Lukić, Petar, Zupan, Zorana, Knežević, Goran, "What drives us to be (ir)responsible for our health during the COVID-19 pandemic? The role of personality, thinking styles, and conspiracy mentality" in Personality and Individual Differences, 176 (2021):110771,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110771 . .
