Emotional Resilience of the Covid-19 Pandemic on a College Campus
Abstract
The perceptions of people during the Covid-19 pandemic cannot always be true. This is due to a life of uncertainty and for many people, fear. Since the pandemic has been around for about two years, this is an excellent opportunity to see how this pandemic has impacted people’s mental health. A way that this information can be recorded is with The Emotional Resilience scale of the Covid-19 Pandemic on a College Campus. Emotional resilience was measured in 1704 American university students, staff, and faculty in October to November 2021 of the Covid-19 pandemic. This was a transitional period for people in South Florida since it was a time where people are were trying to figure out the new normal. The Emotional Resilience scale measured Chaos in the home, both before and during the pandemic (as measured by Matheny et al.,1995), fear of Covid-19 (as measured by Ahorsu et al., 2020), and loss of health and money, defined in the present study as emotional resilience or ER are predicted by family size, income, and relations (larger, richer, better), sleep quality (better), internet access (better), and less nonessential phone use. The least resilient use their phone too much, have poorer internet access, sleep poorly, have less family, less income, and don’t get along. Practical implications for this are to have university community members be trained in better phone use health, better hardware and software guidelines, better sleep practices, and family enrichment ideas.
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Sarah Ransdell
Project Type
Event
Location
Alvin Sherman Library
Start Date
4-6-2022 12:00 PM
End Date
4-7-2022 5:00 PM
Emotional Resilience of the Covid-19 Pandemic on a College Campus
Alvin Sherman Library
The perceptions of people during the Covid-19 pandemic cannot always be true. This is due to a life of uncertainty and for many people, fear. Since the pandemic has been around for about two years, this is an excellent opportunity to see how this pandemic has impacted people’s mental health. A way that this information can be recorded is with The Emotional Resilience scale of the Covid-19 Pandemic on a College Campus. Emotional resilience was measured in 1704 American university students, staff, and faculty in October to November 2021 of the Covid-19 pandemic. This was a transitional period for people in South Florida since it was a time where people are were trying to figure out the new normal. The Emotional Resilience scale measured Chaos in the home, both before and during the pandemic (as measured by Matheny et al.,1995), fear of Covid-19 (as measured by Ahorsu et al., 2020), and loss of health and money, defined in the present study as emotional resilience or ER are predicted by family size, income, and relations (larger, richer, better), sleep quality (better), internet access (better), and less nonessential phone use. The least resilient use their phone too much, have poorer internet access, sleep poorly, have less family, less income, and don’t get along. Practical implications for this are to have university community members be trained in better phone use health, better hardware and software guidelines, better sleep practices, and family enrichment ideas.
