The Antecedents of Resilience During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

A resilient student is a student who can evaluate, overcome and improve themselves in a better direction. Resilience is seen to help individuals cope with stress by regaining energy and adapting when faced with a challenging environment, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has a wide range of impacts on individuals and society. Thus, this study empirically measures the perseverance and self-motivation of students resilient during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study was structured through a self-administered survey with university students in Malaysia identified and selected for data collection. With 357 respondents, data were frequency analysis, descriptively analysis, reliability analysis and Pearson correlation analysis using SPSS. The results indicate that the relationship between perseverance, self-motivation to resilience is positive during the Covid-19 pandemic.