The Resilience Trio: Self-kindness, Humanity, and Courage in Coping with Isolation

This book chapter delves into the effect of courage as a moderator on the indirect association between self-kindnessSelf-kindness and isolationIsolation through humanity using a moderated mediation modelModerated Mediation Model. One hundred and fifty Indian manufacturing and service sector executives have been surveyed using a cross-sectional questionnaire-based approach. Hayes PROCESSPROCESS macro is used to test the significance of the associations hypothesized along with bootstrapped results. The findings reflect the adverse indirect influence of self-kindnessSelf-kindness on isolation through humanityHumanity, with the negative impact being lessened at lower levels of courageCourage. Furthermore, it has also been observed that humanity and isolationIsolation are negatively associated. This study suggests that employees’ isolation decreases through their self-kindness and humanityHumanity when they have a high level of courage. An assessment of the implications and future prospects in relation to the findings has been made.