Resilience in Times of Global Pandemic: Steering Recovery and Thriving Trajectories

Disasters, including earthquakes, wildfires, terrorist attacks, and infectious disease outbreaks, are catastrophic events that expose individuals to stress, disrupt community routines and dynamics, undermine infrastructure and businesses, and result in economic losses for a significant period (Bader, Schuster, Bakić, 2019). The World Health Organization (WHO, 2020) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic in the early months of 2020 and classed it as a major disaster. This pandemic is unique, one of few catastrophic events in recent history to affect the entire global population, and its severity and long-term consequences will test individuals, organisations, communities, and nations in unprecedented ways. The COVID-19 pandemic exemplifies an acute extraorganisational stressor, and it differs from chronic workplace stressors such as role overload or work-life conflict in terms of its magnitude, scope, and impact on personal, social, and organisational resources (Biggs, Brough, on the other hand, the stress responses these acute stressors trigger are often catalysts to positive adaptation and growth, that is, resilience (Liu, Ein, Gervasio, Tedeschi, Calhoun, Shakespeare-Finch, Shakespeare-Finch, Bowen-Salter, Cashin, Badawi, Wells, Rosenbaum, Tedeschi et al., 2018). Scholars have defined resilience as the ability to bounce back from crises and to modify goals and behaviours to cope with changes in the environment, emphasising the adaptive principles underlying a recovery trajectory (e.g., Sutcliffe Southwick, Bonanno, Masten, Panter-Brick, a dynamic cognitive-emotional process of utilising personal, social, and environmental resources to adapt to chronic and acute stressors (Fletcher Shaw, McLean, Taylor, and the capability to proactively develop resources as preparedness factors to effectively cope with and even thrive in the face of adversity (e.g., Kuntz, Malinen, Vanhove, Herian, Perez, Harms, Shakespeare-Finch et al., 2020). The immediate and protracted effects of disasters on stress and with the role of resilience as a personal that their negative effects also post-traumatic growth, have significant in the (e.g., 2020; Tedeschi et al., Malinen, Näswall, et al., 2019; et al., 2020; Ein, et al., 2019). 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