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Psychosocial Factor Leading To Anxiety Among Adolescents Learning From Home During COVID-19 Lockdown
Psychosocial Factor Leading To Anxiety Among Adolescents Learning From Home During COVID-19 Lockdown
Psychosocial Factor Leading To Anxiety Among Adolescents Learning From Home During COVID-19 Lockdown
Jincy Varghese
19psw119
School of Social Work
Under the supervision of Dr. Boban Joseph
Peermade, Idukki
September 2020
Content
• Introduction
• Statement of the problem
• Objectives
• Operation definitions
• Review of literature
• Research gap
• Assumptions
• Research hypothesis (H1)
• Methods
• Theoretical framework
Introduction
• In March 2020, the world health organization has declared the current outbreak
of COVID-19 as public health emergency of international concern and
characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic.
• Some of the popular tech tools enabling online learning through audio and video
links include zoom, Skype, WhatsApp.
• Students all over the world are experiencing distress, because of the uncertainty of
examination in their schools and colleges and with regards to availability of jobs.
Cont.
• The primary reason being , that all students are unable to afford online platform
usage and smoothly transition to online learning which can have huge negative
impacts on student career path(Agha ,2020).
• Cao et al (2020) opined that anxiety issues among students during COVID-19 are
related to their poor economic conditions, daily life events and hampered
academic activities.
Statement of the problem
Specific objectives
General objectives
1. To test the association between anxiety and selected demographic variables such as
age, sex, class of education, religion, duration of stay, reason for homestay, father
education, mother education, father occupation, mother occupation.
2. To assess the level of anxiety among adolescence learning from home during
COVID-19 lockdown.
Research Question
1. What are the factors that leads to anxiety among adolescents learning from
home during covid19?
Operational Definitions
• Elmer, Melham, Stadtfeld (2020) had done a study on students’ social network
and mental health before and at the time of COVID-19 pandemic. They analyzed
change on multiple dimensions of social network (interaction, friendship, social
support and co studying) and mental health indicators (depression, anxiety, stress,
loneliness).
• Student’s levels of stress, anxiety, loneliness and depressive symptoms got worse
compared to before and at the time of crisis. Stressors shifted from fears of
missing out on social life to worries about health, family, friend and their future.
• Universities and researcher discuss the future strategies on how to combine onsite
teaching with online courses, the result indicate the importance of considering
social contacts in student mental health and offered starting points to identify and
support students at higher risk of social isolation and negative psychological
effects during COVID-19 pandemic.
Cont.
• Timalsina (2018) psychosocial problems refer to the difficulties faced by
adolescent in different areas of personal and social functioning. Adolescent are
vulnerable to psychosocial problems because of physical and psychosocial
changes that occur in their body during the developmental stage.
• The findings of this study show that 12.9% of adolescents had psychosocial
problems.
Cont.
• Sandal, Goel, Sharma, Bakshi, Singh & Kumar (2017) conducted a study on
depression, anxiety and stress among school children in Chandigarh. Depressive
disorder often starts at young age. There is a need for early identification of
depression, anxiety and stress and prevention. Ten government schools in
Chandigarh were randomly selected through lottery method. 40 students were
selected from each school reaching sample size 470. Questionnaire was used.
• The prevalence of DAS was 65.53%, 80.85% and 47.02% respectively. Overall co
morbidity between depression and anxiety was 57.65%. The prevalence of DAS
was higher in females. For depression and anxiety, the peak age was 18 years. The
prevalence of DAS was high among school going adolescent in Chandigarh.
Research gap
• COVID 19 pandemic and the lockdown is new scenario for the humans and never
experienced such a situation before. Humans faces a lot of bio-psycho-socio and
economic problems. The online learning or virtual classrooms are new to students in
Kerala.
• The existing literature dealt with the anxiety and psychosocial problems among school
going children but few studies about the anxiety faced by the children in online
learning during COVID-19 lockdown.
• The adolescents attending online class will have some psychosocial attributes
leading to anxiety.
• The anxiety can be measured by using the standardized tool beck anxiety
inventory tool.
Research hypothesis (H1)
Exclusion criteria