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their ideas or creative freedom in other situations. The Conclusions
negative impact of caregiving hours on extraversion Key conclusions to highlight include that social phobia
influences the sociability of individuals and reduces their demonstrates a significant impact on individuals who
energy in pursuing new challenges (Cloninger, 2013). On exhibit pronounced traits of personality encompassing
the other hand, when there is higher extraversion, Openness and Extraversion. Furthermore, an increased
individuals with dementia may benefit more from number of hours devoted to caring for individuals with
caregiving, as caregivers are more readily available to dementia exerts a notable influence on individuals
provide patients with new stimuli and activities that help displaying evident traits of Conscientiousness,
delay the effects of cognitive deterioration caused by the Agreeableness, Openness, and Extraversion that
disease (Norton et al., 2013), and enable them to characterize their personality.
positively express their emotions (Rabins et al., 1990).
However, despite the study by Hajek & Konig (2018) Acknowledgments
finding a positive association between the number of We are grateful to all study participants and
hours informal caregivers dedicate to caregiving and collaborators.
conscientiousness, according to our results, we can infer
that dedicating more hours to caregiving may Ethical Approval
compromise caregivers’ levels of organization, planning, This study received approval from the scientific council
and even responsibility, which are characteristics of of the Higher Institute of Intercultural and
conscientiousness, as well as their levels of confidence, Transdisciplinary Studies of Almada.
empathy, or cooperation, which characterize their
agreeableness. The lack of empathy or cooperation with Funding Source
the care recipient can indeed exacerbate the difficulties This research did not receive any outside funding or
experienced in caregiving (Hajek & Konig, 2018) and support.
lead the caregiver to adopt maladaptive caregiving
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