Abstract
To determine the influence of coping behaviors, resilience, and social support on students' emotional and social loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional research design was used to gather data from 303 college students from the Central Philippines using four standardized scales through an online survey. Loneliness among students was high during the coronavirus pandemic. Resilience, coping behaviors, and social support were identified as protective factors against loneliness. Interventions directed toward increasing resilience, social support, and coping behaviors may help decrease emotional and social loneliness caused by the mandatory lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic, which originated from Wuhan, China, in November 2019, has brought many unprecedented challenges and has had serious implications on the economy and health of many countries around the globe
The results of the study showed that loneliness was prevalent among college students during the period of mandatory lockdown to curtail the transmission of coronavirus, with 56.7% experiencing moderate levels of loneliness and 23.6% feeling severely lonely
Tull et al (2020) suggested that measures such as home confinement, social distancing, and quarantine to control infection greatly contribute to a sense of loneliness among young people as they restrict them from socialising with their peers
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic, which originated from Wuhan, China, in November 2019, has brought many unprecedented challenges and has had serious implications on the economy and health of many countries around the globe. Since the onset of the pandemic, many countries, including the Philippines, implemented various public health measures, including the mandatory lockdown for the entire country, to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Public and private sectors were mandated to allow only 30% of their current workforce to go to work while strict curfews were imposed to limit the movement of the citizen and to contain the spread of the virus. These public health measures were imposed to ‘flatten the curve’, or slow or prevent the transmission of the COVID-19 virus, increasing the capacity of the healthcare institutions to adequately manage confirmed cases of the disease. Among young people, these measures may have had profound emotional and psychological consequences, including social isolation and loneliness, and resulting from the disruption in their daily routines and social interactions with peers and family
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