Coronavirus Anxiety, Psychological Distress and the Role of Personality Traits

Abstract

Since the COVID-19 pandemic has struck people globally in an unprecedented manner, everyone is uncertain about what the future holds. As research has not taken place within this area for the Indian population, this study will help us in gaining insight into the level of anxiety and psychological distress due to the pandemic and how it is impacting one’s normal functioning. This study will allow us to compare levels of COVID-19 anxiety and psychological distress across two age groups and understand how each of the big five personality traits correlates with COVID-19 anxiety and psychological distress. The correlation between Covid Anxiety, Psychological Distress and Personality traits among the young adults and middle adults established a moderate positive correlation between Neuroticism - KPDS and low positive correlation between Neuroticism- CAS, which were statistically significant.