By Hannah Devlin, Photo: Westend61/Getty Images, The Guardian, September 28, 2022
The impact of the Covid pandemic may have been so deep that it altered people’s personalities, according to research.
Previously psychologists have failed to find a link between collective stressful events, such as earthquakes or hurricanes, and personality change. However, something about the losses experienced or simply the long grind of social isolation appears to have made an impact.
“Younger adults became moodier and more prone to stress, less cooperative and trusting, and less restrained and responsible,” according to the authors of the study, led by Prof Angelina Sutin of Florida State University College of Medicine.
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