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Personality traits that help coping with lockdown in Covid easier now clear

The more conscientious people were, the less anxious and depressed when stuck at home.

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One study of college students at the University of Vermont did find that introverts in lockdown reported improvements over time in their mood, whereas the extroverts said their mood got worse.

Andreas Kluth | Bloomberg

In March 2020, still early in the pandemic, I opined that for introverts quarantine can be a liberation. I was extrapolating from personal experience and historical examples. And many other pundits had a similar hunch. But we were speculating before we had empirical data. Now that such information is available, what does it say?