How do personality traits and prosocial behavior affect young adults’ compliance with health protection measures against COVID-19?

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of people worldwide. Governments struggled to persuade citizens to obey ongoing lockdowns and social restrictions to fight the transmission of the virus. Social distancing and face masks have become a part of daily life and at the same time a basic tool for protecting ourselves and others around us. Recent studies are focusing on the relationship between personality-prosocial behavior and compliance with health recommendations and measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Personality traits, prosociality and the COVID-19 pandemic is a crucial topic of research during the period of the worldwide health crisis. Many different