“…In contrast, self-compassion promotes resilience by facilitating decreased loneliness (Akın, 2014). Indeed, research shows that self-compassion is related to higher resilience and mental wellbeing in the context of various types of adversity, such as low well-being (Sommers- , work-and study related stress and anxiety (Kemper, Mo, & Khayat, 2015;Lefebvre, Montani, & Courcy, 2020;Tang, 2019), chronic illness (Baker, Caswell, & Eccles, 2019;Hayter & Dorstyn, 2014;, interpersonal violence (Scoglio et al, 2018), divorce (Masumeh, Shirin, & Hadees, 2019) and other types of trauma such as natural disaster and traffic accidents (Shebuski, Bowie, & Ashby, 2020). More recently, a burgeoning body of research has explored the protective role of self-compassion in buffering against stressors arising as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (Lau, Chan, & Ng, 2020).…”