Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine period determined that university students (human resource) in Mexico had adopted the online class modality, which required them to adapt themselves to new technologies and environmental conditions that are different from classrooms at their university. Specifically, these new environmental conditions can be uncomfortable and have an impact on the students’ academic performance. Consequently, the present study aims to determine the impact that the lighting, noise, and temperature levels (independent variables) have on academic performance (dependent variable) in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. To do this, a questionnaire was developed, which was applied to 206 university students online, and a structural equation model was built that integrates the four variables through three hypotheses, which were statistically validated through the partial least squares method. Results showed that temperature, lighting, and noise have significant direct effects on university students’ academic performance. As a conclusion, it was obtained that the three independent variables have an impact in the sustainability of university students (human resource).
Highlights
Sustainability, in its socio-economic dimension, is defined as the capacity to efficiently use available resources guaranteeing that human well-being conditions are distributed among social classes and genres to ensure their profitability over time [1]
Note that in the dependent variable of academic performance, the most frequent answer was 3 = Sometimes. This result suggests that environmental conditions at home are not optimal and that there are other variables that can affect academic performance
The results obtained in this research make it clear that the academic performance of university students can be affected by the environmental conditions, which they are exposed at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this is supported by previous studies
Summary
Sustainability, in its socio-economic dimension, is defined as the capacity to efficiently use available resources (including human resources) guaranteeing that human well-being conditions (safety, health, education) are distributed among social classes and genres to ensure their profitability over time [1]. This definition implies that, for human resources, it is fundamental to provide an efficient design of the conditions in which they operate. An efficient design helps to improve their physical (such as strength, sight, hearing) and psychosocial (such as knowledge, motivation, creativity, socialization) factors, keeping them profitable over time This allows for sustainable development of the human resources. Ergonomic design improves human resources’ sustainability by facilitating its efficient use
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