Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has had global effects on all industries and on people around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has had repercussions both politically and economically, as well as on society and the individual, i.e., on the human psyche. Although the effects on the human psyche have been highlighted in research, the well-being of the individual in correlation with social perception have not been addressed in this context but in different situations. The review of the relevant literature has also identified a knowledge gap concerning online vs. face-to-face learning, from the perspective of psychological, pedagogical and managerial factors. The present study aims to address the relationship of well-being—social perception—academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic on a group of students from the Faculty of Engineering in Sibiu, Romania. Three types of instruments were used to evaluate the studied characteristics: the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS), the SKS method for generating feedback and the grid for assessing knowledge. The results showed the increase of the three parameters studied, after quarantine. The conclusions of the research are that, despite the greater variation in mood, caused by stress, anxiety and tension, the well-being of the subjects increased and the positive feedback provided increased significantly. The results lead to the formation of a positive self-image of students, which also has an impact on learning outcomes.
Highlights
From the multitude of effects that the pandemic has on the human psyche, this paper aims to address the impact of COVID-19 on the well-being and social perception of a group of students at the Faculty of Engineering, Sibiu
Following the statistical analysis of the data obtained, it was observed that, in relation to well-being, in the post lockdown stage, the interest for other people correlates with optimism, relaxation and energy before the pandemic (0.355, correlation is significant at the 0.01 level), and interest in new things correlates negatively with interest in other people
Regarding the feedback provided by students, the values obtained in the first stage are positively correlated with those in the second stage (0.584, correlation is significant at the 0.01 level)
Summary
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that can cause respiratory infections, common colds or more severe diseases in humans and animals. The best-known respiratory infections caused by coronaviruses are Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), Severe. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact on all people and sectors of activity, primarily due to restrictions on the mobility of governments and institutions to maintain social distance [1]. Recent research has highlighted the impact of COVID-19 on use of technology and the internet [1,2,3,4], economy [5], food industry [6,7], environment [8,9,10], urbanization [11], people’s lifestyle [12] and professional life [13,14,15] and physical and mental health of the population [16,17,18,19,20,21,22]
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