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We examined whether person-centered Big Five profiles differentiated self-reported distress and resilience resources among adults living in Italy after the end of the World Health Organization-declared COVID-19 public health emergency.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This cross-sectional anonymous online survey included 2,169 adults assessed between 22 May 2023 and 23 December 2024. Participants completed the Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10), and Resilience Scale for Adults-11 (RSA-11). Standardized Big Five scores were clustered using k-means, and the number of profiles was evaluated using elbow, silhouette, and hierarchical-clustering methods.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A two-profile solution was retained, although separation was modest (average silhouette width = 0.185). Compared with the resourceful trait profile (n\u00a0= 1,113), the vulnerable trait profile (n = 1,056), characterized especially by lower emotional stability and conscientiousness, reported higher anxiety symptoms (g = 0.74), depressive symptoms (g = 0.76), and perceived stress (g = 0.86), and lower resilience resources (g = \u22121.02; all p &amp;lt; 0.001).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Brief person-centered Big Five profiling differentiated adults with greater self-reported symptom burden and fewer resilience resources in a prolonged post-emergency context. These findings are non-diagnostic and do not establish COVID-specific causal mechanisms, but may inform vulnerability stratification during future prolonged crises.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyt.2026.1868864","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,24]],"date-time":"2026-07-24T10:10:27Z","timestamp":1784887827000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Big Five personality profiles, self-reported distress, and resilience resources among adults in Italy after the acute COVID-19 emergency: a cross-sectional cluster-analytic study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Tommaso","family":"Barlattani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences (DISCAB), University of L\u2019Aquila","place":["L\u2019Aquila, 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