Abstract
<span lang="EN-US">Students experience various essential changes related to their psychological conditions during their education in college. Students' adaptability to the demands of these changes will give birth to new skills for the next stage of psychological development. However, academic stress, social problems, career, and personal-emotional problems can hinder the productivity and development of students in terms of mental health. This issue increased with the new-normal life during the COVID-19 pandemic, which also impacted the education process. For this reason, it is necessary to have a mobile-based online psychological assessment to map the mental health conditions of students during the pandemic. This study aims to develop and validate an Android-based online psychological assessment application to map students' mental health conditions. This study involved ten experts in counseling and software development, five counselors, and 638 users of the POTENSIA application. According to application development needs, data analysis using Aiken's V coefficient test, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), and Rasch Model Analysis. The results of the study prove that the application is considered valid and practical to use. The effectiveness of the application is considered very good in mapping the mental health conditions of students.</span>
Highlights
College students must be individuals with logical and planning abilities at the higher education stage [1,2,3]
The adaptation is an individual process in responding to changes that occur in the environment that can affect the individual’s physical and psychological [9, 10]
The intensity and density of the learning process in higher education make students generally experience pressure and burdens that lead to academic stress conditions
Summary
College students must be individuals with logical and planning abilities at the higher education stage [1,2,3]. Aspects that are determinants of psychological change and development such as cultural changes, new environments, living separately from parents, significant academic atmosphere changes, and college choices can be reasons for early future career choices [5,6,7,8]. For this reason, students should have basic knowledge and insight about these changing conditions. Students’ adaptability to these changes will form new skills that can be used in the stage of life [12, 13] This is a manifestation of ability to face challenges while studying at university
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