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| Published: August 04, 2021
Predictability of Big-Five Factors on Intolerance of Uncertainty: A Case from Middle Adulthood Category of People in The Southern India During Pandemic Period
Assistant Education Advisor, Board of Directors, Indian Schools in Oman, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.046.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.046
ABSTRACT
The outbreak of the current pandemic has created a considerable amount of uncertainty among people across the globe. Fear and anxiety about a new disease could result in strong emotional changes in children and adults alike. The main aim of this study is to examine the relationship between Big-Five Factors (Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, & Openness) and Intolerance of Uncertainty among Middle Adulthood categories of people from the Southern part of India. 203 responses from the Middle Adulthood category of people residing in the southern states of India in respect of their Big-Five Factors and Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) have been analyzed through Correlation, Anova, and Regression analyses. It has been identified in this study that while Extroversion was significantly negatively predicted IU, other dimensions of Big-Five Factors except Agreeableness had also positively predicted IU. It was also found that demographic variables such as Gender, Occupational Status, and educational qualification did not have a considerable impact on the relationship between Big-Five Factors and IU. The findings of this study have far-reaching implications for the organizations to chalk out different strategies to enhance the competitiveness of human resources during the current pandemic period.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Gokuladas V K
Received: May 19, 2021; Revision Received: July 22, 2021; Accepted: August 04, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.046.20210903
10.25215/0903.046
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021