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The present study examined the relationship between big five factors of personality and some psychological symptoms (PS) and demographic variables, and how these variables contribute on PS variance as response to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Symptom Checklist 40 (SCL-40) and The Arabic Big Five Personality Inventory were responded online by 530 participants, 375 females and 155 males, 454 Egyptians, and 69 are of other Arab nationalities. Results indicated that Neuroticism correlated positively with all PS, Extraversion and consciousness correlated negatively with all PS, Agreeableness correlated positively only with psychosomatic disorders and openness correlated negatively with obsessive- compulsive disorders and paranoia. After quarantine, the time an individual spent on the Internet and the PS correlated positively with anxiety, psychotic, hostility, depression, and phobia. Females had higher mean scores than males on all PS indexes except paranoia, and Egyptian had higher mean scores than the other Arabic cultures on anxiety, hostility, depression, and severity index. There were significant differences between the educational levels` groups in all PS indexes except psychosomatic disorders. Finally, big five factors of personality factors had contribution in predicting PS indexes and the time an individual spent on the internet was the only demographic variable that predicted some PS indexes. The results were discussed in the light of literatures. |
