Evaluating Digital Resilience by Examining Big Five Personality Traits and Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction in Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions

• Published in: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
• Main Author: Milhem M.; Shafie D.I.; Hussein T.; Ateeq A.; Al Astal A.
• Format: Book chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH 2025
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85210887429&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-031-71318-7_37&partnerID=40&md5=a621c8424cb3ff3ceabffbd4b2277cdf

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the education sector, leading to widespread closures of educational institutions worldwide and a shift to online learning. However, governments are now reintroducing face-to-face learning to address the challenges associated with online education. This transition poses obstacles for educators and students, particularly those who have become accustomed to online learning since the beginning of their college journey. Student digital resilience, along with their personality traits and satisfaction of basic psychological needs, emerges as crucial for navigating this transition from online to face-to-face learning. This research aims to investigate the impact of students’ Big Five Personality Traits and satisfaction of basic psychological needs on their digital resilience, specifically within Malaysian higher learning institutions, during the transition between learning modalities. Social cognitive theory and self-determination theory are employed to support the framework. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.