Resilience Shapes a Healthy Self-Concept during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis

This paper discusses resilience domains in shaping individual’s healthy self-concept in crisis, especially during pandemic COVID-19. In crisis, the mental and emotional health are at risk. Resilience domains -such as Basics, Belonging, Learning, Coping, and Core Self- become an important ‘booster’ to assist individuals in confronting the real self and ideal self. Living in fear due to unseen virus that can cause death, feeling sorrow and grief, may lead individuals to perceive their world in unhealthily. Hence, exploration of protective and risk factors also known as resilience factors, in self may provide a self-intervention to remain calm, positive and living in new norm or new normal. Implication to self-development will be emphasized in this paper in order to perceive and create a healthy self-concept through resilience intervention