https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274542 claims that “When personality was measured in 2021–2022, however, there was no significant change in neuroticism compared to pre-pandemic levels, but there were significant small declines in extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The changes were about one-tenth of a standard deviation, which is equivalent to about one decade of normative personality change. These changes were moderated by age and Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, but not race or education. Strikingly, younger adults showed disrupted maturity in that they increased in neuroticism and declined in agreeableness and conscientiousness.”
However, there were other things besides COVID-19 happening during that time period (e.g. increased political division, economic disruption – though some of these may be related to COVID-19) that may also be related to the findings.
