@article{ref1,
title="Fall from grace: increased loneliness and depressiveness among extraverted youth during the German COVID-19 lockdown",
journal="Journal of research on adolescence",
year="2021",
author="Alt, Philipp and Reim, Julia and Walper, Sabine",
volume="31",
number="3",
pages="678-691",
abstract="The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected young people's social and emotional life. Based on longitudinal data provided by 843 adolescents (57.3% female) of the German Family Panel (pairfam), we investigated effects of extraversion on changes in loneliness and depressiveness between 2018 and 2019 and the first German COVID-19 lockdown in the first half of 2020. <br><br>FINDINGS of latent change modeling show that highly extraverted adolescents experienced a larger rise in depressiveness, and a third of this total effect was mediated through increases in loneliness. These results contradict previous work evidencing lower depressiveness among extraverted youth and challenge the notion of extraversion as a mere protective factor. Under conditions of restricted access to others, this personality trait may become a burden.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1050-8392",
doi="10.1111/jora.12648",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12648"
}