Psychological impact of online learning during covid-19 pandemic on students' mental health as life quality basis

Liudmyla Holubnycha,Tetiana Malieieva,Olga Dolgusheva,Tetiana Besarab,Oksana Khodakovska

doi:10.34069/ai/2021.47.11.8

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https://doi.org/10.34069/ai/2021.47.11.8

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Abstract

The article describes current problems of students' life quality connected with online learning caused by Covid-19 pandemic and related quarantine. Since online learning can be considered stressful, and that pandemics and quarantine restrictions increase its impact on students' emotional and mental health as a basis for their quality of life, it is significant to discover their impact. The purpose of the research is to examine changing in students’ mental health during two periods of online learning. 258 students of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Ukraine) became the sample group. Quantitative and qualitative methods have been used to achieve the purpose. The results have revealed that a rate of stress and an anxiety level among students have grown drastically comparing the first and the second online learning periods. The major conclusion is that experiencing stress, caused by online learning in terms of the pandemic and quarantine, a persons’ psychological well-being is badly influenced and can lead to depression. Practical recommendations to reduce stress and psychological problems have been proposed.

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Modern world has faced an unprecedented challenge: an outbreak of Covid-19, which has affected global sustainable development significantly, as it has influenced the life, wellbeing and development of every person, this pandemic led to stress
Visual change in the level of severity of students’ depression in the first online learning period in comparison with the second online learning period is demonstrated in Figure 1, where First Period (FP) is marked with a blue line and Second Period (SP) is marked with a red line
Visual change in the level of severity of students’ anxiety in the first online learning period comparing to the second online learning period is presented in Figure 2 where FP is marked with a blue line and SP is marked with a red line

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Modern world has faced an unprecedented challenge: an outbreak of Covid-19, which has affected global sustainable development significantly, as it has influenced the life, wellbeing and development of every person, this pandemic led to stress. The investigation of changes in mental and emotional health of students as the basis of their life quality is especially expedient because, on the one hand, emotional stability of young people is vital for sustainable development of the world, on the other hand, they have faced additional impact on their mental health and emotional sphere caused by a change in the form of education: from traditional one into different forms of distance learning Since it absorbs the best features of traditional forms (full-time, parttime, and external) and may be integrated well with them and as distance learning is a high-tech product of the scientific and technological revolution that uses the idea of continuous service to students, in the terms of the pandemic the vast majority of educational institutions have chosen it and started working online using various UNESCO platforms (2020). Online form of distance learning has become a special pedagogical technology of the pandemic, based on open learning with the use of modern telecommunications for "student - teacher", "student - student", "student - information" communication in the information space

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