Did Dating Change During The Pandemic?

Did your personality change during the pandemic? What about the personalities of people you know? If so, how? 

If you’re looking for a partner—did the pandemic change your attitudes about finding someone? Did it change the importance of having one special person in your life? Are people behaving differently than they did when/if you dated pre-pandemic? 

This study looked at over 7,000 people ages 18 to 100+, from 2014 through 2022, and found big changes in several major personality dimensions specifically tied to the pandemic. 

*The pandemic impacted personality change equivalent to what we’d usually expect to see over more than a decade. 

*Changes were largest/worst for young adults, maybe because their sense of ‘normal’ is still being shaped.

*And changes went the opposite direction from what research generally finds. Usually as we age, in my own research from my years in academia, I found that people become more optimistic, less depressed, and more emotionally stable. This study points out that usually, across the lifespan, people also become more emotionally stable and more confident. 
The pandemic reversed that. 

From the article: 

“If we look more closely, the pandemic appears to have negatively affected the following areas:

“our ability to express sympathy and kindness towards others (agreeableness);
our capacity to be open to new concepts and willing to engage in novel situations (openness);
our tendency to seek out and enjoy other people’s company (extraversion);
our desire to strive towards our goals, do tasks well or take responsibilities towards others seriously (conscientiousness).”

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https://www.psypost.org/2022/10/new-research-provides-evidence-that-the-pandemic-changed-our-personalities-64143?utm_source=PsyPost