Resilience of Students in Bhayangkara Jakarta Raya University Whom Had Character Building Program in Facing Covid-19 Pandemic
Rika Fitriyana, Sarita Candra Merida

Faculty of Psychology, Bhayangkara Jakarta Raya University

Abstract

Since March 2020, Indonesia has been fighting Covid-19 pandemic that effects people^s live in almost all aspects. Difficulties are inevitable and to survive, human must have to ability to bounce back from adversity, frustration, and misfortune (Ledesma, 2014). In Bhayangkara Jakarta Raya University, every students learn about character building which contains several themes such as problem solving and empathy. Thus themes were aimed to help them shaping good quality within.This study aimed to find out the level of resilience of students in this pandemic situation.Literature review and descriptive statistic were used to gain information about the level of students^ resilience. Online questionare were given in order to collect data needed for this research.Most of students were able to bounce back and handle difficulties they met during this pandemic. Character Building as a subject on college helped students develop resilience within.

Keywords: Character Building, Pandemic, Resilience

Topic: Psychology