Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Corona-phobia and MCO on the Nigerian graduate students in the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The study was quantitative and descriptive survey in design. The population of the study was 380 graduate students in the UTM. A total of 191 participants were selected randomly as the sample for the study. The study used an online questionnaire for data collection. Its validity and reliability were 0.7 and 0.8 respectively. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation). After the analysis, the findings revealed that both corona-phobia and MCO have effects on the students because they resulted in hopelessness, fear and stigma coupled with affecting the educational undertakings of the students. It is thus recommended that the authorities of the institution should introduce online services, academic activities and programmes to enable continuity of the educational activities during the pandemic period and reduce redundancy, anxiety and depression among the students.
Highlights
The study employed a descriptive survey design in order to seek the responses of the participants based on the subject of investigation (Creswell and Creswell, 2018)
The result shows that corona phobia develops fear and hopelessness among students (M=4.4475), makes students loose self-control (M=3.8729), develops social stigma among students (M=4.5580), develops psychological trauma among students (M=4.6243), discourages students from study and learning (M=4.3094), discourages academic trust among students (M=4.1878), and denies students group discussion (M=4.6188)
The Movement control order restricted the students access to physical library services (M=4.2431), access to physical laboratory services (M=4.3591), access to study room (M=3.6961), face-to-face interaction with the supervisors (M=4.6575), access to excursion functions and field works (M=4.5249), attending workshops (M=4.4807), attending academic conferences (M=4.6354)
Summary
The study employed a descriptive survey design in order to seek the responses of the participants based on the subject of investigation (Creswell and Creswell, 2018). The study uses the entire Nigerian postgraduate students (280) in the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia as its population. The study used Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table for sample size determination and selected 191 participants. Simple random sampling technique was used t
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