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Association between students’ inattentiveness to study and their psychological conditions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Md. Muniruzzaman1, Siddiky, Md. Roknuzzaman2.
While the COVID-19 pandemic has adverse effects on the state of mental health of the
individuals, no attention has been paid so far in the academia whether there is an association between
students’ inattentiveness to study and their psychological conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As such, the study was intended to find out the association between students’ inattentiveness to study
and their psychological conditions during this pandemic. Primary data for this study were collected
from a total of 157 samples chosen from the undergraduate students of 18 academic departments of the
Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), Bangladesh on the basis of snowball sampling.
The study reveals that most of the respondents were much inattentive to study during the COVID-19
pandemic and they were much anxious, depressed, tensed, restless, bored and frightened, and thereby
their mental health and well-being were affected. The study shows that there is a strong positive
association between the students’ inattentiveness to study and their psychological conditions which
involve anxiety, depression, tension, restlessness, boredom and fear/panic. The study indicates that the
association between the students’ inattentiveness to study and their psychological conditions is
statistically significant. Finally, the study suggests that the Government and the authority concerned
should undertake proper measures to mitigate the adverse psychological conditions of the NSTU
students by means of motivations and psychosocial counselling, and thereby keeping up their
attentiveness to study during the pandemic or any other critical situation. As such, there is a crying
need for establishing a psychosocial counselling centre or an educational counselling centre in all
universities of Bangladesh including the NSTU.
Affiliation:
- Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), Noakhali-3814, Bangladesh, Bangladesh
- Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU), Noakhali-3814, Bangladesh, Bangladesh
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