Life Changes, Stress, and Coping Stress of Undergraduate Students During Online Learning in Pandemic Era
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_15How to use a DOI?
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- Coping Stress; Online Learning; Pandemic Covid 19; Undergraduate Students; Stress
- Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has been going on for more than a year, and there is still no certainty when it will end. Education institutions experienced the most significant impacts because the learning process became online to prevent transmissions. These changes raised various problems. This study aims to determine the changes and problems experienced by the students during online learning, the stress levels, and students’ coping strategies. This mixed-method study involves 5018 undergraduate (S1) students (female = 66.12%) from the 2016 – 2020 classes across 20 universities in Indonesia located in the East and the West part of Indonesia. Data collection was carried out in March 2021 using the quota sampling method. The instruments used are the Perceived Stress Scale and the adapted Brief COPE to suit the student context. The result of this study indicates that the majority of participants (77%) have difficulties in absorbing materials, 66% complaint that the tasks become very numerous, 49% have difficulties joining online classes due to signal problems, 60% experience a reduced family income, 39% have economy crisis, 64% experience infrequent rest time, 56% experience unhealthy lifestyle because of the overuse of gadgets. The level of stress experienced by the university students at moderate to high levels was 85%. The students’ coping strategies also play a role in their stress levels. The result of the multiple regression shows that when students use ‘less useful’ coping strategies it contributes to the increase of perceived stress (R2 = 0.29, F = 672.18, p < 0.001, r = 0.56). The qualitative analysis results show that there were mental health problems in some students, which required the attention of the college leaders. We provide several recommendations for further study and student mental health care programs.
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TY - CONF AU - Yohana Ratrin Hestyanti AU - Angela Oktavia Suryani AU - Penny Handayani AU - Wieka Dyah Partasari AU - Weny Savitry S. Pandia AU - Lis Lestari AU - Kristinus Sembiring AU - Ferdinand Bele Sole AU - Godlif Sianipar AU - Aprilita Br Sitepu AU - Gabriela Abigail AU - Irwanto PY - 2023 DA - 2023/11/07 TI - Life Changes, Stress, and Coping Stress of Undergraduate Students During Online Learning in Pandemic Era BT - Proceedings of the 4th Green Development International Conference (GDIC 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 131 EP - 148 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_15 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-110-4_15 ID - Hestyanti2023 ER -