IMPACT OF EPIDEMIC COVID-19 AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS IN CHENNAI
Dr.N.Saranya DeviAssistant Professor, School of Management Studies, Tamil Nadu Open University, Saidapet, Chennai-600015. Article History: Received: 10 January 2021; Revised: 12 February 2021; Accepted: 27 March 2021; Published online: 16 May 2021
ABSTRACT:
Introduction: This large level, infectious, public health affair, imposed huge pressure on the government that various medical, healthcare, social, student’s debt, digital learning4, and the public. School closing impact not isolated students, teachers, and families but have influential economic and communal consequences. The epidemic brought not only the risk of death from the viral infection but also unbearable psychological pressure and stress to students of the rest of the world
Objectives: To evaluate the impacts of covid-19 lockdown among the college students;
And to analysis the factors that covid-19 Awareness impact, Daily time spent impact, Learning impact and Stress impact with college students.
Methods: Structured questionnaire package that inquired information including Gender, Age, Education level, Source of Parental Income, daily time spending with social media and impact of these students during the COVID-19 outbreak. Likert’s five point scale is developed, parameter were Awareness impact of covid-19, Daily time spent impact, Learning impact, and Stress impact to test the impact percentage analysis and Chi-Square KMO, coefficient and the Bartlett’s test of sphericity with fifty samples for the research.
Result: There is no significant association between “Time spent with social media and Covid – 19 influencing factors” except Learning Impact. On the differing, the null hypothesis is accepted and concluded that the time spend with social media significantly related to the Covid-19 affecting the college students during pandemic lockdown.
Conclusion: The study assessed that covid-19 epidemic influenced the college students daily routine life during the lockdown highly. “Most important footstep has to be taken by college to continue education: by shifting classrooms to computers.”
Keywords: Epidemic, Pandemic, Covid-19, college students, Impact. 1. INTRODUCTION
“Most important footstep continues education: by shifting classrooms to computers.”
Today the world is facing a major health epidemic spread of covid-19 that the novel corona virus as increased extremely all over the China along with many other countries, impact human transferable of pneumonia1. According to world meters data, there were 4.9 million corona virus positive cases, 3,
24,210 deaths and 1.9 million recovered cases of covid in 215 counties, worldwide as of 20 may 20202.
As a result, approximately 1.725 billion learners are at present affected due to school closures in due to the pandemic. According to UNICEF report as of 18 May 2020, 156 countries are executing nationwide closures and 29 are executing local closures, influencing about 98.5 percent of the world's all schools, colleges and universities students population3.
This large level, infectious, public health affair, imposed huge pressure on the government that various medical, healthcare, social, student’s debt, digital learning4, and the public. School closing impact not isolated students,
teachers, and families but have influential economic and communal consequences. The epidemic brought not only the risk of death from the viral infection but also unbearable psychological pressure and stress to students of the rest of the world5,6. The continuous spread of the epidemic, strict isolation measures and
delays in starting schools, colleges, and universities across the country has expected to impact of college students. There have been information on the psychological crash of the epidemic on the general public, patients, medical students, children, and older adults7,8,9. As per India’s census 2011, India is expected to have 34.33% share of youth in total population by 2020. Therefore, this paper throws light on impact of epidemic covid-19 among college students.
1.1 OBJECTIVES:
This study and analysis has conducted during the pandemic for the following reasons. (1) To evaluate the impacts of covid-19 lockdown among the college students;
(2) To analysis the factors that covid-19 Awareness impact, Daily time spent impact, Learning impact and Stress impact with college students.
1.2 HYPOTHESIS FRAMED: The Null Hypothesis for the study is:
• There is no association between Monthly Parents income and Time spend with Social Media of college students attitude in Chennai.
• There is no association between Time spend with social Media and Awareness about Covid-19 among college students.
• There is no association between time spend with social Media and Daily time spent impact college students.
• There is no association between Time spend with social Media and Learning impact college students. • There is no association between Time spend with social Media and Stress impact college students. 2. METHODOLOGY
2.1 DATA COLLECTION:
This article is based on both primary and secondary data. The primary data were collected from the Students of Arts and Science College with a prepared questionnaire. The secondary data were used from different journals, articles and websites.
2.2 CONSTRUCTION OF QUESTIONNAIRE:
The respondents were assessed through structured questionnaire package that inquired information including Gender, Age, Education level, Source of Parental Income, daily time spending with social media and impact of these students during the COVID-19 outbreak. To assess the impact of covid-19 among college students Likert’s five point scale is developed with scales ranging as “Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree and Strongly Disagree,”. In order to assemble the data regarding impact of covid1-19 parameter were Awareness impact of covid-19, Daily time spent impact, Learning impact, and Stress impact for the research.
2. 3 SAMPLE VOLUME:
Convenient Sampling method is used in the study for choosing the samples and the sample size for the study was fifty.
2.4 STRUCTURE OF ANALYSIS:
With a view of observing the data, percentage analysis and Pearson’s chi-square tools are used for test. A master table was shaped for interpret input; the reply of each respondent and small cross tables was prepared from the master table for the study.
2.5 LIMITATIONS:
1. The selected sample size for the study is modest compared with the total population. 2. This survey conducted with only Arts and Science College students.
3. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
3.1 PERCENTAGE ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES:
The demographic variables of the respondents’ Viz., Gender, Age, Education level, Source of Parental Income, Daily time spending with social media have been taken for analysis and simple average method has been adopted. From the table 1,
From the table 1, it has inferred that there is logically good majority of respondent between the age group of 18-21 (70%) and above below 18 (16%) years of age. The highest number of respondents (58%) is male and (42%) is female who spend time with social media. Educational Qualification of students are representing (64%) and (28%) in UG and PG respectively. Monthly Income of Parents of the college students respondent almost people that is 1 Lakh – 2.5 Lakh is (46%) and Below 1 lakh is (32%) in Chennai. Time spend with social media of the students are 4-6 hours is (42%) and 2 – 4 hours is (36%)
only in college students analyze result. The study reveals that male college students are spending high time with social media.
Table 1
SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE RESPONDENTS S.No Particulars No. of
Respondents Percentage S.No Particulars
No. of Respondents Percentage a) Age b) Students Educational Level 1 Below 18 8 16 1 UG 32 64 2 18 – 21 years 35 70 2 PG 14 28 3 22-25 years 6 12 3 M.Phil 3 6 4 Above 25 years 1 2 4 PhD 1 2 Total 50 100 Total 50 100
S.No Particulars No. of
Respondents Percentage S.No Particulars
No. of Respondents Percentage c) Monthly Income of Parents d) Time Spend with Social Media 1 Below 1 Lakh 16 32 1 Less than 1 hour 4 8 2 1 Lakh 2.5 Lakh 23 46 2 2 – 4hours 18 36 3 2,50,001 – 5 Lakh 9 18 3 4 – 6 hours 21 42 4 Above – 5 Lakh 2 4 4 More than 6 hours 7 14 Total 50 100 Total 50 100
S.No. e) Gender No. of
Respondents Percentage
1 Male 29 58
2 Female 21 42
Total 50 100
3.2 CHI–SQUARE TEST RESULTS – MONTHLY INCOME OF PARENTS AND TIME SPEND
WITH SOCIAL MEDIA OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTITUDE IN CHENNAI
In this part daily time spending of students with social media are made to ascertain the significant relationship between the time spending with family members of colleges students in Chennai.
Time spends in social media of the college students, taken for the study and time spending with family members of college students in Chennai. The hypothesis framed to find the relationship is “There is no association between the times spends with social media and time spends with family members of college students in Chennai.” Chi-square test is used to discover the relationship of Time Spending in social media with daily time spent with family members of college students. The consolidated result of the chi- square test is shown in Table-2.
Table-2
Value Value Significance Pearson
Chi-square
16.919 9 24.989 5 % Significant
Table 2 shows that the calculated values (24.989) is greater than the table value (16.919) at 5% level of significance with monthly parents income with time spending in social media. Hence, the null hypothesis is significantly related to monthly parents’ income with time spending in social media of college students. 3.3 RELATING TIME SPENDS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA AND COVID – 19 FACTORS INFULENCING THE COLLEGE STUDENTS.
The hypothesis framed to find the relationship is “There is no significant relationship between Time spent with social media and Covid – 19 influencing factors viz., (Covid-19 Awareness Impact, Daily Time Spent Impact, Learning impact, and Stress impact.). Impact of epidemic covid-19 influenced by college students’ divided into four factors”. Chi-square test is used to identify the relationship of impact of covid-19 among college students. The consolidated result of the chi- square test is shown in Table-3.
Table-3
CONSOLIDATED RESULTS OF CHI-SQUARE TEST
S.No. Table Value d.f Calculated Value Level of Significance Result 1 Covid-19 Awareness Impact 12.592 6 15.343a 5 Significant
2 Daily Time Spent Impact 21.026 12 21.225a 5 Significant
3 Learning Impact
21.026 12 10.400
a 5 Not
Significant 4 Stress Impact 16.919 9 16.451a 5 Significant
The results of the relationship between “Time spent with social media and Covid – 19 influencing factors.” are presented in the table 3 that reveals the rejection of the hypothesis “H 0: There is no
significant association between “Time spent with social media and Covid – 19 influencing factors” except Learning Impact.
On the differing, the calculated value of Covid-19 influencing factors “Covid-19 Awareness, Daily Time spend Impact and Stress Impact” is higher than the table value at 5% level of significance. Hence the null hypothesis is accepted and concluded that the time spend with social media significantly related to the Covid-19 affecting the college students during pandemic lockdown.
4. CONCLUSION
The study assessed that covid-19 epidemic influenced the college students daily routine life during the lockdown highly. The analysis part of the study revealed the students have to engage themselves to develop their carrier during lockdown with help of online classes. However, having a relative or an acquaintance infected with COVID-19 was an independent risk factor for experienced stress. They can attend the online classes at their convenient time to reduce their stress. Covid-19 Awareness Impact, Daily Time Spent Impact, and Stress impact are significantly influence the college students’ day-to-day life and higher education cycle process. Except in case of learning Impact where it is insignificant.
The COVID-19- related impact that included economic stressors, on daily-life, and academic delays were positively associated with the level of anxious college students during the epidemic, when education system is facing issues with public health, and they require attention, help and support of the society, family members, and education institution to solve students stress worries. It has recommended that the government and education institutions should work together to crack the big question before the students concerning teaching and learning difficulty due lockdown delay. Covid-19 Pandemic has transforming and changes to Indian education scheme, “Most important footstep has to be taken by college to continue education: by shifting classrooms to computers.”
5. SCOPE FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
➢ Virtual teaching create gap between the teacher and students progress. ➢ Online teaching - Impact in Teaching, Learning, and Health concern. ➢ Vritual Teaching – SWOT Analysis.
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