TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Fall from grace: increased loneliness and depressiveness among extraverted youth during the German COVID-19 lockdown
JO  - Journal of research on adolescence
A1  - Alt, Philipp
A1  - Reim, Julia
A1  - Walper, Sabine
SP  - 678
EP  - 691
VL  - 31
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1050-8392
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jora.12648
ID  - ref1
ER  -