Role of personality, health beliefs and fear of COVID-19 in engagement of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors among Egyptians during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Multivariate analysis of factors associated with high maladaptive behavior of the studied patients

Variable	B	S.E	Wald	P	AOR	95% CI
Age class	− 0.071	0.156	0.208	0.648	.931	0.686	1.264
Female sex	0.304	0.178	2.912	0.088	1.355	0.956	1.921
Married	− 0.262	0.179	2.126	0.145	0.770	0.541	1.094
Urban residence	0.055	0.175	0.099	0.754	1.056	0.750	1.488
Working in medical field	0.113	0.152	0.559	0.455	1.120	0.832	1.508
Before university education levels	− 0.858	0.529	2.628	0.105	0.424	0.150	1.196
High fear	− 0.544	0.147	13.723	< 0.001**	0.580	0.435	0.774
Perceived susceptibility	− 0.193	0.140	1.908	0.167	0.824	0.627	1.084
Perceived severity	0.256	0.147	3.042	0.081	1.292	0.969	1.723
Hand hygiene perceived benefits	− 0.152	0.160	0.903	0.342	0.859	0.628	1.175
Social distance perceived benefits	− 0.069	0.161	0.185	0.667	0.933	0.681	1.279
Perceived Barriers for hand hygiene	0.055	0.143	0.148	0.701	1.056	0.799	1.397
Perceived Barriers for social distance	0.087	0.143	0.367	0.544	1.091	0.823	1.445
High self efficacy	− 0.152	0.141	1.155	0.282	0.859	0.651	1.133
Extraversion	− 0.439	0.158	7.692	0.006*	0.645	0.473	0.879
Neuroticism	− 0.209	0.154	1.844	0.174	0.811	0.600	1.097
Agreeableness	− 0.433	0.492	0.773	0.379	0.649	0.247	1.703
Openness	0.534	0.220	5.897	0.015*	1.705	1.108	2.623
Conscientiousness	− 0.117	0.240	0.236	0.627	0.890	0.556	1.424