How do you feel during the COVID-19 pandemic? A survey using psychological and linguistic self-report measures, and machine learning to investigate mental health, subjective experience, personality, and behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic among university students

Table 2 Correlations (r) between personality (Big Five), depression, anxiety and perceived difficulties in emotion perception during the COVID-19 pandemic (p is reported two-tailed)

Personality Big Five (BFI-40)
	Depression	Difficulties in emotion perception
	(PHQ-2)	(TAS-20)
Conscientiousness	r = − 0.25, p < .001
Neuroticism	r = 0.41, p < .001	r = 0.39, p < .001
	Anxiety	Anxiety
	(STAI-state)	(STAI-trait)
Conscientiousness		r = − 0.29, p < .001
Extraversion		r = 0.31, p < .001
Neuroticism	r = 0.39, p < .001	r = 0.61, p < .001

Mental health
	Anxiety	Difficulties in emotion perception
	(STAI-State)	(TAS-20)
Depression (PHQ-2)	r = 0.24, p < .001	r = 0.54, p < 0.001
	Depression
	(PHQ-2)
Anxiety (STAI-Trait)	r = 0.37, p < .001	r = 0.36, p < .001

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