“How Personality and Policy Predict Pandemic Behavior: Understanding Sheltering-in-Place in 55 Countries at the Onset of COVID-19": Correction.

Reports an error in "How personality and policy predict pandemic behavior: Understanding sheltering-in-place in 54 countries at the onset of COVID-19" by Friedrich M. Götz, Andrés Gvirtz, Adam D. Galinsky and Jon M. Jachimowicz (American Psychologist, 2021[Jan], Vol 76[1], 39-49). In the article “How Personality and Policy Predict Pandemic Behavior: Understanding Sheltering-in-Place in 55 Countries at the Onset of COVID-19,” by Friedrich M. Götz, Andrés Gvirtz, Adam D. Galinsky, and Jon M. Jachimowicz (American Psychologist, 2021, Vol. 76, No. 1, pp. 39–49, https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000740), there were two errors. First, there were translation errors in the Japanese and Korean versions of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI; Gosling et al., 2003). Second, there was an error in the termination logic that applied to 195 individuals: The skip logic that was meant to automatically move participants to terminate the survey if they selected “no, I would not like to participate” was not working for all participants, and 195 of these participants completed the survey even after selecting this option. To rectify these errors, we (a) recoded the data from the Korean version (in which two items had been accidentally swapped in their presentation order), (b) dropped all participants who completed the Japanese version of the data (which contained an inaccurate translation), and (c) dropped all participants for whom the termination logic did not work properly. Together...

Source: American Psychologist - May 19, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research