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This book chapter delves into the effect of courage as a moderator on the indirect association between self-kindness and isolation through humanity using a moderated mediation model. One hundred and fifty Indian manufacturing and service sector executives have been surveyed using a cross-sectional questionnaire-based approach. Hayes PROCESS macro is used to test the significance of the associations hypothesized along with bootstrapped results. The findings reflect the adverse indirect influence of self-kindness on isolation through humanity, with the negative impact being lessened at lower levels of courage. Furthermore, it has also been observed that humanity and isolation are negatively associated. This study suggests that employees’ isolation decreases through their self-kindness and humanity when they have a high level of courage. An assessment of the implications and future prospects in relation to the findings has been made.
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Khurana, R., Rangnekar, S. (2024). The Resilience Trio: Self-kindness, Humanity, and Courage in Coping with Isolation. In: Sushil, Rani, N., Joshi, R. (eds) Flexibility, Resilience and Sustainability. Flexible Systems Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9550-9_1
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