McCleskey, Jim and Gruda, Jon (2021) Risk-taking, resilience, and state anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A coming of (old) age story. Personality and Individual Differences, 170 (110485). ISSN 0191-8869

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Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented hostile psychological environment for individuals. Against the backdrop of this exogenous shock and applying a Cumulative Prospect Theory framework, we examined a relationship between risk-taking, trait resilience, and state anxiety, wherein age moderates the relationship between trait resilience and risk-taking, on state anxiety during the pandemic. We assess risk-taking using a behavioral measure and assess trait anxiety, big five personality traits, and other demographic factors in a sample of 515 individuals in the United States. Regression analysis revealed that age moderates the relationship between risk-taking and state anxiety and that highly resilient, risk-tolerant individuals experience lower state anxiety than less resilient risk-averse individuals. In contrast, older, more resilient, risk-averse individuals experience lower state anxiety than their younger, more resilient, risk-averse counterparts. Study limitations are noted, and additional research is suggested.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Cite as: Jim McCleskey, Dritjon Gruda, Risk-taking, resilience, and state anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A coming of (old) age story, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 170, 2021, 110485, ISSN 0191-8869, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110485. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886920306760)
Keywords:	Anxiety; Age; Risk-taking; Resilience; COVID-19;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
Item ID:	15015
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110485
Depositing User:	Jon Gruda
Date Deposited:	15 Nov 2021 16:14
Journal or Publication Title:	Personality and Individual Differences
Publisher:	Elsevier
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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