Socio-Emotional Assessment of University Students in the Physical Education Course During the Pandemic

Abstract

To evaluate the impacts of the pandemic on the socio-emotional state of university students of the Physical Education course at the State University of Piauí (UESPI) during the pandemic period. This research has a descriptive characteristic with a quantitative approach. The sample consisted of 39 students of both sexes. Due to the pandemic situation, it was only applied between the 5th to 8th periods. Participants responded to the socio-emotional self-assessment. The measures adopted were absolute frequencies and quantitative variables and means and standard deviation, as well as the Shapiro-Wilk test to verify that the data followed the distribution. (%). The difference between the standard components was Un for sample test for metric with two categories and Kruskal-W for three samples for samples with categories or more. It was observed that of the five socio-emotional skills, the female audience has the highest average in self-regulation, self-knowledge and responsible decision-making, reaching an average of 1.54; 1.93 and 1.79 respectively. The male audience reached the highest media in terms of social awareness and relationship skills, with the respective values being 1.53 and 1.53. The values presented in the standard deviation were respectively 0.204 in self-regulation, 0.013 in self, 0.101 in social awareness, 0.879 in relationship skills and 0.531 in decision making. The research points out that the Physical Education course at UESPI has a heterogeneous socio-emotional state, but the female audience reached a higher level than the male audience in 3 of the 5 socio-emotional skills.