Medical Xpress: Disagreeability, neuroticism and stress: What drives panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic

Originally published: Medical Xpress, 1 July 2020

Panic buying has returned to Australia in the wake of its second-biggest city experiencing a spike in COVID-19. The Victorian government has reimposed stay-at-home restrictions on 36 of Melbourne’s 321 suburbs in response.
Once again supermarket stores are being emptied of toilet paper and other consumables.
We recruited our 600 participants via consumer-survey company Pureprofile, which ensured our sample was representative of the Australian population.
We asked if they had “stockpiled”, and how much, in response to COVID-19, as well as questions about their income, education attainment, attitudes and personality.
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