Anxiety and social skills indicators of college students during COVID-19 pandemic

Studies from different countries verified the relationship between deterioration of quality of mental health and academic engagement decrease of college students during pandemic period of COVID-19. This study aim to describe indicators of academic engagement, anxiety, academic anxiety, and social sk...

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Autores: Fogaça, Fabiane Ferraz Silveira, Souza Neto, Miguel Marcelo de, Oliveira, Adriana Leonidas de, Bolsoni-Silva, Alessandra Turini
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI)
Repositorio:Research, Society and Development
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/36137
Acceso en línea:https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/36137
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:COVID-19
Estudiantes universitarios
Ansiedad
Habilidad social.
Estudantes universitários
Ansiedade
Habilidade social.
College students
Anxiety
Social skills.
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Sumario:Studies from different countries verified the relationship between deterioration of quality of mental health and academic engagement decrease of college students during pandemic period of COVID-19. This study aim to describe indicators of academic engagement, anxiety, academic anxiety, and social skills (SK) of college students during COVID-19 context. Participants were 88 college students of different semesters of a undergaduate course of Psychology from the interior of State of São Paulo. Data were collected in 2020 by an online questionnaire. Main results indicated: a) participants of the 7th semester achieved greater mean of academic engagement, academic anxiety and SK; and participants of the 5th semester achieved the lower mean oh the same indicators; b) statistics correlations between SK categories and academic engagement; SK categories and academic anxiety categories. Final considerations suggest the results corroborate the literature on damage to mental health in college students as a result of coping with the pandemic.