THE EFFECTS OF EXTROVERTED AND INTROVERTED PERSONALITY TRAITS ON THE LOCKDOWN EXPERIENCE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2023-1
Alkan, Defne
The purpose of this research is to understand more closely the effect of an individual's extroversion and introversion personality traits on their experiences during the quarantine and social isolation period experienced during the Covid-19 period. The study, which plans to measure the experience of the individual in this process through factors such as difficulty in adapting to the quarantine period and compliance with the rules during the quarantine period, was developed by Benet-Martinez and John (1998) and adapted in Turkish by Sümer and Sümer (2005), in order to determine the personality traits of the individual. Inventory (BFI)” was used. A single-item scale was developed to measure adaptation difficulty, and for compliance with the rules, Van Rooij, B., de Bruijn, A. L., Reinders Folmer, C., Kooistra, E., Kuiper, M. E., Brownlee, M., & Fine, A. ( 2020) and the reliability and validity study of which was conducted by Oral, T. & Gunlu, A. (2021), the Social Distance Scale (Compliance with Covid-19 mitigation measures in the United States) scale was used. coefficient was found as α = 0.70 (Age range is 18-70 years; mean age is 31.95). In addition, confirmatory factor analysis results for validity studies showed that the single-factor structure fit well (X2/sd=0.65, p>.001, RMSEA=0.00, SRMR=0.00, GFI=0.99, AGFI=0.99, CFI=1.00). No significant relationship was found between adaptation difficulty and compliance factors and personality traits of the individual, but these results are potentially of great significance for future research.

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Citation Formats
D. Alkan, “THE EFFECTS OF EXTROVERTED AND INTROVERTED PERSONALITY TRAITS ON THE LOCKDOWN EXPERIENCE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2023.