Impact of social distancing on the psychological quality of life during COVID-19 for Jordanian University students

Abstract

Ever since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak from Wuhan China in December 2019, the need for Global lockdowns on a wide range emerged, thus limiting human interactions with one another. These limitations were believed to have been a direct impacting factor on people's general mental health and the psychological quality of life. To investigate the effects of social distancing on the quality of life of the humankind, more particularly the psychological variations that were caused by the said situation, a self-administered cross-sectional quasi-structured questionnaire was developed. The results of the study point out the huge impact of social distancing on the psychology of humankind. Overall, 54.2% of the students committed to social distancing during the Corona pandemic, while 13.7% of them didn’t. And for the overall impact of social distancing on the psychological quality of life, the overall mean was 1.79 out of 3, only 10.7% of students reported a high impact on their life, and 48% of them affected with medium level. Males and students with low economic status were the most physiological affected by social distancing.