Abstract
Resilience is perceived within the context of perceived risk, fear, and vulnerability. The purpose of the theme chosen is to help contribute and help reduce suffering and to improve overall psychological wellbeing while strengthening resilience within guiding resilience principles of practice. COVID-19 continues to ravage the world and so there is a need for interventions that will help in managing the vulnerabilities that arise. The author hopes to contribute to this important topic and to come up with a conceptual framework and to instigate dialogue and guide even as it ensures management of vulnerability through resilience, resolve, and optimization.
TopBackground
It is important to understand different levels of engagement in preventive behaviors for current global COVID-19 pandemic. It is also important to know levels of fear, perceived risk and vulnerability and those affected most and how to reduce these levels and effects. Further, it is helpful to know perceived risk and vulnerabilities as well as how these can be significantly linked to preventive behaviours as well as the extent to which these do predict these behaviors over and above the demography variables. The chapter arises from the fact that covid-19 pandemic having had a major effect on the human population globally, since 2020 and still does, it has led to a global experience of increased levels of distress and anxiety due to social isolations consequences and other tragedies. The result as stated by the call is vulnerabilities, behavior related, with the human race being overwhelmed while causing strong emotions on the human race. Learning to cope with these stressors is healthy and does make one become more resilient. Thus, the decision to address psychological wellness regarding RESILIENCE at such a time as this, that which is covid-19 related, comes at an opportune time. This writer will look into resilience as the adversary and risk factor based on social distance and isolation consequences all within the frame of psychological wellbeing.
The given concepts of risk, protection and resilience have emerged as concepts for conceptualizing and managing social and health problems arising from on-going covid-19. However, according to Fraser, M.W., Galinsky, M.J., & Richman, J.M. (1999), these terms are elusive. The author takes up the task of writing the chapter while being well aware of this elusive nature of resilience and the fact that even it’s conceptualization is not in harmony. Regarding the psychological perspectives of behavior response to the pandemic, there has been a shift from deficits of individuals to focusing on ones strengths. Thus a construct such as resilience, the essence of stress perspective becomes a positive construct. Being the ability to bounce back, resilient becomes a suitable aspect of the chapter, for bouncing back is relevant in the current situation of pandemic. As stated the situation prevails and it is not known how and when covid-19 will come end.
The risk of stress and negative life events arising from covid-19, more so regarding isolation and constant hand washing is new to the world as there is yet to be such a pandemic on such global scale. Concern is more on the role of potential mediators in the link between resilience and wellbeing. Research on resilience has however evolved over the years but is not complete and continues to develop. The intent here is for psychology researchers to better understand even as they create new knowledge on the subject and greater realization of the complexities arising from what the world faces in the present, past, in real time and in future. The given concepts of risk, protection and resilience have emerged as concepts for conceptualizing social and health problems such as the world is now facing. Psychological resilience should allow one to cope successfully with adversities occurring during stressful periods, which may otherwise trigger mental illness. Recent models suggest that inhibitory control (IC), the executive control function (ECF) which supports our goal-directed behavior and regulates our emotional response, may underlie resilience. However, the ways in which this is manifested during stressful situations in real life is still unclear. The construct resilience derives from the Latin verb resilient which means to rebound or “leap back.” It is a term used in many fields originally coming from ecology. This brings to bear new thinking thus the aspect of “positive psychology.” The term resilience connotes a psychological meaning.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Resilience Processes: Is development in that one can help develop resilience as a process and is categorized as individually related even as it is personally spirited as optimism, social such as family and friends and the environment such as disasters to foster positive relationships.
Vulnerability: This is the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally, and is on a reduction basis.
Adaptation: At its most basic, adaptation that refers to a process or action that changes a living thing so that it is better able to survive in a new environment.
Risk Factor: That which arises from the effects of the adversity in this case social distancing and its behavior rapporteur.
Resilience Competence: Resilience is the ability to face and adapt to challenges to overcome them. A person with strong resilience skills can handle disappointments because they don't let setbacks keep them from progressing.
Adversity: Is harsh conditions that falls into two categories of chronic that is distal and proximal-onset and acute has a definite starting point unlike chronic and has a brief duration and limited impact. These define different resilient pathways (Bonnanno & Diminich, 2013 AU59: The in-text citation "Bonnanno & Diminich, 2013" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Psychological Functioning: Is an outcome arising from an adversity from given points of vulnerability and is further divided into maladaptive and adaptive, negative, and positive related.
Mediators: Resilience as a Mediator Between Interpersonal Risk Factors and Hopelessness in Depression.
Coping: Coping is defined as the thoughts and behaviors mobilized to manage internal and external stressful situations
Resilience Practice: It describes the strategies and processes put in place that leads to building capacities or ability that leads one to anticipate and cope with shocks, and to recover from their impacts in a timely and efficient manner.