A Study On Consequence Of Covid-19 On Pshycological Well Being Of Students In Higher Education

Abstract

Covid-19 pandemic started in 2019 due to corona virus outbreak, it has brought terrific changes in human life. It started during December 2019 in Wuhan Province, China. Due to pandemic situation lockdown was imposed by Indian Government so they restricted the movement of people from one place to another. All segments of the population were severely affected by the spread of Covid-19; one of the most affected segments is education. The way of learning has changed drastically,

During the pandemic period, the Education sector transformed the way of teaching like students should attend the class through online mode by using Google meet, zoom & Microsoft teams etc. This shift from physical to virtual/online learning has definitely led to a lot of stress and anxiety problems among the school and college students. The Education sector quickly adopted the online class scenario but it took toil on the psychological well being of students.

Many students particularly in India were not equipped with the required technology which was a major cause of stress. Indian colleges closed in March 2020 to reopen in February 2021 but due to the second wave of covid-19 the colleges again closed in the month of April 2021. Everything changed in a matter of two months and again the online class scenario emerged. The higher education institutions changed the way of teaching and learning process which made the students life difficult and stressful due to continuous monitoring of Electronic devices.