The COVID-19 pandemic forced the worldwide introduction of containment measures. This emergency scenario produced a conflict between personal freedom and public health, highlighting differences in individual behaviours influenced by psychological traits and moral considerations. In this context, a detailed characterisation of the psychological variables predicting adherence to containment measures is crucial to enhance public awareness and compliance.

During the first virus outbreak in Italy, we assessed whether adherence to government measures was explained by the interacting effects of personality traits and moral dispositions. Through an online questionnaire, we collected data on individual endogenous variables related to personality traits, locus of control, and moral dispositions, alongside the tendency to breach the lockdown for outdoor physical activity. The results showed that individual measures of novelty-seeking, harm-avoidance and authority concerns interacted in driving the adherence to the national lockdown: MFQ-Authority moderated the facilitatory effect of novelty-seeking on lockdown violation, but this moderation was itself moderated by higher TCI-harm-avoidance. By assessing a model forecasting the likelihood of violating restrictive norms, these findings show the potential of personality and moral foundation assessments in informing prevention policies and emergency interventions by political and scientific institutions.

COVID-19 大流行迫使全球采取遏制措施。这种紧急情况在个人自由和公共卫生之间产生了冲突，突出了受心理特征和道德考虑影响的个体行为差异。在这种情况下，详细描述预测遵守遏制措施的心理变量对于提高公众意识和遵守情况至关重要。

在意大利第一次病毒爆发期间，我们评估了对政府措施的遵守是否可以用人格特质和道德倾向的相互作用来解释。通过在线问卷调查，我们收集了与人格特质、控制点和道德倾向相关的个体内生变量的数据，以及违反户外体育活动封锁的倾向。结果表明，寻求新奇、避免伤害和权威关注的个别措施在推动遵守国家封锁方面相互作用：MFQ-权威缓和了寻求新奇对违反封锁的促进作用，但这种缓和本身受到更高的缓和TCI-伤害避免。通过评估预测违反限制性规范的可能性的模型，