TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk-taking, resilience, and state anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic
T2 - a coming of (old) age story
AU - McCleskey, Jim
AU - Gruda, Dritjon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors
PY - 2021/2/15
Y1 - 2021/2/15
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Age
KW - Anxiety
KW - COVID-19
KW - Resilience
KW - Risk-taking
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85095985859&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110485
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110485
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85095985859
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 170
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
M1 - 110485
ER -