COLLATERAL DAMAGES FROM A PANDEMIC: PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES
COLLATERAL DAMAGES FROM A PANDEMIC: PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL CONSEQUENCES
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5583452308127
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Palavras-chave: pandemia, estudiantes, consecuencias físicas, cognitivas, emocionales.
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Keywords: pandemic, students, physical, cognitive, emotional consequences.
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Abstract:
One of the consequences of the SARS-COV 2 virus was the distancing of the student population from educational centers and, with it, the presence of multiple physical, cognitive, emotional, economic and family effects. In this sense, equality education, which represents the most important and transcendent challenge for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), was affected by the need to resort to virtual academic training. It is true that distance education was a challenge for teachers, but it was the students and, above all, the academic quality who suffered the ravages of distance education. From this perspective, we decided to reflect on the problems that the effects of the pandemic left in the student community of the Faculty of Humanities at `` Universidad Autónoma de Campeche``. A sample of 180 students of History, Literature and Psychology was evaluated. A 40-item questionnaire was applied that evaluated physical condition, attitude and technique towards studying, organization of time and space, concentration and reading comprehension. The results point to deterioration in the physiological aspect: fatigue, low mood and anxiety; In the cognitive field, precariousness is observed in terms of availability to study, motivation and participation; while, in relation to time and space of study, the limits between the academic and the familiar seem to have been diluted. Which also allowed us to reflect on the different dynamics between male and female students and their academic consequences.
- Maria del Rosario Espinoza Sanchez
- Magnolia López Méndez