Which personality traits can mitigate the impact of the pandemic? Assessment of the relationship between personality traits and traumatic events in the COVID-19 pandemic as mediated by defense mechanisms

• Alessio Gori ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alessio Gori, Eleonora Topino, Letizia Palazzeschi, Annamaria Di Fabio

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alessio.gori@unifi.it

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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• Eleonora Topino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alessio Gori, Eleonora Topino, Letizia Palazzeschi, Annamaria Di Fabio

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Sciences, LUMSA University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0849-1249

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• Letizia Palazzeschi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alessio Gori, Eleonora Topino, Letizia Palazzeschi, Annamaria Di Fabio

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Letters and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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• Annamaria Di Fabio

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alessio Gori, Eleonora Topino, Letizia Palazzeschi, Annamaria Di Fabio

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Education, Languages, Interculture, Letters and Psychology (Psychology Section), University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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