scholarly journals STUDY OF THE MENTAL STATE OF STUDENTS IN THE PROCESS OF ONLINE EDUCATION DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (11) ◽  
pp. 2705-2710
Author(s):  
Larysa L. Borysenko ◽  
Larysa V. Korvat ◽  
Olga V. Lovka ◽  
Antonina M. Lovochkina ◽  
Oksana P. Serhieienkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Confined Space ◽  
Prolonged Stay

The aim: Exploring the specifics of the underlying mental states of university students in the context of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifying their relationship to mental health. Materials and methods: The study of mental states was carried out using three valid methods, namely: a clinical questionnaire for the detection and evaluation of neurotic states (K. Yakhin, D. Mendelevich), a questionnaire for diagnosing the level of social frustration (L. Wasserman, adaptation of V. Bojko), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (Ch. Spielberger, adaptation by Yu. Khanin). The author’s questionnaire (L. Borysenko) was used to study the connection between the factors of online learning and emotional states of students. The obtained empirical data were subjected to qualitative and quantitative processing. Results: The analysis of the obtained data allows to state the fact of predominance of high and increased level of situational and personal anxiety in the subjects in the conditions of online learning. In the process of psychodiagnosis of neurotic states, it was found that most students have a level of painful or borderline mental conditions such as anxiety, neurotic depression, asthenia and autonomic disorders. It was found that students have an elevated level and high level of social frustration. The main factors of online learning, which, according to students, cause them to deteriorate mental health are: forced to stay in a confined space, lack of direct social contacts, prolonged stay in a static position, increased study load and volume of tasks, anxiety for academic success and quality professional training, concern for their health and the health of their loved ones. Conclusions: The forced transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected the mental state of many students. In most respondents, this manifested itself in increased anxiety, depression, autonomic reactions due to limited opportunities to communicate with teachers and classmates, new learning conditions and increased workload.

The Challenges Faced by Pharm.D Students in Online Learning due to Covid-19 Pandemic and its Impact on their Mental Health in the Northern Border Region of Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 2819-2822
Author(s):  
Anwar A Alshammari ◽  
Abdulrahman M Alshammari ◽  
Nawaf M. Alotaibi ◽  
MD Ali Mujtaba ◽  
MD Tauquir Alam
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Pharmacy Education ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Poor Sleep ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
Teaching Learning

Objective: The purpose of the survey was to gather information from students on their learning preferences prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, barriers to online education during the pandemic, and the mental and psychological effects of COVID-19 on students. Method: Applying Google Forms, a cross-sectional pharmacy student-targeted online questionnaire designed to develop. In order to ensure that only pharmacy students responded, an introductory opening inquiry of the program name used to select out non-pharmacy students. Following that, these few demographic questions are asked to the participant's present institution and program year in which the participants currently in. Results: A total 260 pharmacy students received the survey, out of total 186 replies were received from professional pharmacy students, resulting in a response rate of around 71.5%. Almost half of the students (94%) chose traditional face-to-face training, while 32.8% preferred a combination of online and face-to-face instruction, and only 16.7% liked online instruction alone. The difficulties to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak show that, Issues with in-person communication (23.7%), pandemic-related anxiety and stress (22%), time management (19.9%), experience in online education (16.7%). The majority of respondents (87%) intended to incorporate online knowledge gained during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak into their teaching/learning techniques. During the COVID-19 epidemic, we discovered that practically all students were plagued by symptoms of sadness, anxiety, tension, and poor sleep quality, with the majority suffering from significant depression (31.2 %). Conclusion: This study concludes that most of the students are in favor of incorporation and applications of online learning experiences in teaching/learning practices garnered during pandemic. Furthermore, the majority of students had changed their behavior as a result of coronavirus, while nearly half of those polled experiencing an increase in anxiety and tension. Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, online learning, mental health, Pharm.D students, Pharmacy education, face to face learning.

scholarly journals The mental state of population of cities and towns during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Edigareva ◽  
◽  
Yuliya Makarevskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All

In late 2019 - early 2020, the world was faced with a massive infection of COVID-19. The spread of the disease was quite high and affected almost all countries of the world. The infection was transmitted in a severe form, and therefore there were many deaths. Undoubtedly, the situation affected the mental state of people in many regions of the world and our country. Therefore, the aim of our research was to study the mental state of residents of cities and towns during the COVID-19. We assumed that during the spread of COVID-19 across Russia, the indicators of mental states, namely "frustration", "neurotization" and "energy" in cities and towns, will differ. However, the level of "anxiety" will not have significant differences. Particular hypotheses: the level of "frustration" will be higher in big cities, "neurotization" and "energy" will have a higher rate in small towns. The following methods were used in the research: Eysenck H.J. «Scale of mental states, Boyko V.V. «Method of neurotization diagnostics», method "Self-assessment of emotional states" A. Wessman and D. Ricks, nonparametric Mann-Whitney test. The research involved 83 people, 44 people lives in large cities, 39 – lives in small, 16 – males, 67 – females. Age: from 13 to 74. According to the results of the work, the hypothesis of the same level of anxiety in both groups was fully confirmed. The differences in the level of frustration and neurotization were not statistically confirmed. The hypothesis of a higher level of "energy" in regions with a small population was partially confirmed.

PSYCHOLOGICAL WORK WITH THE CONVICTS’ SERVING PUNISHMENT IN A SPECIAL REGIME COLONY

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Олеся Николаевна Ежова
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Motivation To Change ◽  
Penal Colony ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
Future Loss ◽  
High Level

В статье рассматривается проблема готовности к освобождению осужденных, которым судом назначено наказание в виде пожизненного лишения свободы, а также лицам, которым смертная казнь в качестве помилования заменена на этот вид наказания, с учетом того что в настоящее время у многих осужденных наступило право на условно-досрочное освобождение, которое вызывает много вопросов, связанных с критериями оценки личности этих осужденных и мерами, направленными на подготовку их к освобождению. Анализируются трудности, с которыми сталкивается психологическое сопровождение этой категории осужденных: проблемы установления психологического контакта (вынужденный контакт); дефицит времени (Правила внутреннего распорядка) для оказания индивидуальной и групповой психологической помощи; необходимость обеспечения безопасности при работе с ними; отсутствие у осужденных мотивации изменяться, а также к совместной работе с психологом; негативные эмоциональные состояния и высокий уровень конфликтности среди осужденных. Характеризуются психические состояния, которые испытывают эти осужденные на различных этапах отбывания наказания в исправительной колонии особого режима (агрессивность, высокий уровень конфликтности, отсутствие перспектив на будущее, утрата смысла в жизни). Анализируются объективные и субъективные факторы, влияющие на личность осужденного в течение длительного срока отбывания наказания, и факторы, от которых зависит готовность этих осужденных к освобождению. На основании анализа данной проблемы делаются выводы о том, что особое внимание следует уделять не только профессиональной подготовке пенитенциарных психологов, но и их психологической готовности работать с этой категорией осужденных. The article is about the problem of the readiness to release convicts who have been sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, as well as to persons for whom the death penalty has been replaced by this type of punishment as a - early release, which raises many questions related with the criteria for assessing the personality of these convicts and measures aimed at preparing them for release. The difficulties faced by the psychological support of this category of convicts are analyzed: problems of establishing psychological contact (forced contact); lack of time (internal regulations) for the provision of individual and group psychological assistance; the need to ensure safety when working with them; convicts' lack of motivation to change, as well as to work together with a psychologist; negative emotional states and a high level of conflict among convicts. The mental states that these convicts experience at various stages of serving their sentences in a special regime penal colony are characterized (aggressiveness, high level of conflict, lack of prospects for the future, loss of meaning in life). The objective and subjective factors influencing the personality of the convict during a long term of serving the sentence, and the factors on which the readiness of these convicts to release depends are analyzed. Based on the analysis of this problem, it is concluded that special attention should be paid not only to the professional training of penitentiary psychologists, but also to their psychological readiness to work with this category of convicts.

scholarly journals NLP-Based Quantification of the Mental State of Psychiatric Patients

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Sankha S. Mukherjee ◽  
Jiawei Yu ◽  
Yida Won ◽  
Mary J. McClay ◽  
Lu Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Binary Vector ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Mental States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Text ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Vector Representations ◽  
Over Time

Psychiatric practice routinely uses semistructured and/or unstructured free text to record the behavior and mental state of patients. Many of these data are unstructured, lack standardization, and are difficult to use for analysis. Thus, it is difficult to quantitatively analyze a patient’s illness trajectory over time and his or her responsiveness to treatment, and it is also difficult to compare different patients quantitatively. In this article, experts in the field of psychiatry, along with machine learning models, have collaboratively transformed patient data available in status assessments generated by physicians into binary vector representations. Data from patients with mental health disorders collected within a real-world clinical setting from one of the largest behavioral electronic health record (EHR) systems in the United States have been used for generating these representations. The binary vector representation of these health records is shown to be useful in various clinical tasks, such as disease phenotyping, characterizing the suicidality of patients, and inferring diagnoses. To summarize, this approach can transform semistructured free-text summaries of patients’ status assessments into a structured, quantifiable format, which enriches the data that reside within EHR systems. This allows for effective intra- and interpatient quantifications and comparisons, which are much needed in the field of mental health. With the aid of these binary representations, patients’ mental states can be systematically tracked over time, as can their responses to medications at the individual and population levels.

scholarly journals The McGill Face Database: validation and insights into the recognition of facial expressions of complex mental states

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar Schmidtmann ◽  
Ben J. Jennings ◽  
Dasha A. Sandra ◽  
Jordan Pollock ◽  
Ian Gold
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Small Subset ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Side View ◽  
Face Database ◽  
Recognition Of Facial Expressions ◽  
Wide Range

Current databases of facial expressions of mental states typically represent only a small subset of expressions, usually covering the basic emotions (fear, disgust, surprise, happiness, sadness, and anger). To overcome these limitations, we introduce a new database of pictures of facial expressions reflecting the richness of mental states. 93 expressions of mental states were interpreted by two professional actors and high-quality pictures were taken under controlled conditions in front and side view. The database was validated with two different experiments (N=65). First, a four-alternative forced choice paradigm was employed to test the ability of participants to correctly select a term associated with each expression. In a second experiment, we employed a paradigm that did not rely on any semantic information. The task was to locate each face within a two-dimensional space of valence and arousal (mental state – space) employing a “point-and-click” paradigm. Results from both experiments demonstrate that subjects can reliably recognize a great diversity of emotional states from facial expressions. Interestingly, while subjects’ performance was better for front view images, the advantage over the side view was not dramatic. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the high degree of accuracy human viewers exhibit when identifying complex mental states from only partially visible facial features. The McGill Face Database provides a wide range of facial expressions that can be linked to mental state terms and can be accurately characterized in terms of arousal and valence.

scholarly journals Influence Of Optimism Upon The Accumulation Of Stress, Mental State And Perceived Risks For The Future Of Students, In The Conditions Of Covid–19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 (6s) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Valeri Stoyanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Naval Academy ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Negative Expectations

An empirical psychological study was conducted with students from Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The aim of the research was to test the role of optimism on the accumulation of stress in the conditions of pandemic of COVID-19, their mental states, experiences in connection with social isolation and perceived risks for the future and career. It has been found that optimism, as a generalized personal expectation, has a strong buffering effect on the impact of accumulated pandemic stress on students’ emotional states. Negative expectations do not have a significant effect on the emotional state. Optimism and negative expectations have no effect on fears for the future and perceived risks for young people as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Obviously, other personal and social factors determine the negative expectations for the acquired competencies during distance learning – online, as well as for more difficult careers and career problems for this reason. More pronounced negative expectations make it more difficult for students to tolerate social isolation, while optimism has no statistically significant impact on social isolation experiences during a pandemic. Students with more optimism perceive their mental state as stable, good, while those with reduced optimism and more pronounced negative expectations as shaky, depressed. The results of the study suggest the need for additional activity of higher education institutions in such conditions to support and advise students.

scholarly journals Communicative Tolerance of Policemen in the Context of Their Emotional Intelligence’ Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
O. О. Євдокімова ◽  
Я. С. Пономаренко
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Support Service ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels

This paper presents the results of an empirical study of the peculiarities of manifestations of emotional intelligence among police officers with different levels of communicative tolerance at the stage of primary vocational training. In this context, the actual model of emotional intelligence and its practical application need to be verified taking into account the specifics of police activity. Emotional intelligence is considered primarily as an integral feature of the personality of a policeman in the context of his professional communication in situations that are problematic. The emotional intelligence of the individual is represented in the article as a cognitive ability to perceive and analyze both their own and others’ emotional states and emotional manifestations; as well as the ability to correctly regulate and use them. Communicative tolerance, in turn, is one of the most important features of the police officer, which shows his attitude to people, the degree of tolerance to unpleasant or unacceptable, in his opinion, mental states, qualities and deeds. As a psychodiagnostic tool, the questionnaire “General communicative tolerance” (V. V. Boyko) and the “Emotional Intelligence” test (D. V. Lusin) were used. The sample consisted of 132 students of initial training of police officers. The results of the study indicate differences in the manifestations of emotional intelligence in students with different levels of communicative tolerance. It is empirically proven that emotional intelligence in situations of problematic communication acts as an integral personality of the police officer, which allows him to successfully recognize and interpret the emotions of both his own and the communication partner. The study of the level of emotional intelligence of the police at the stage of professional training will allow the psychological support service to better address the tasks of professional selection and psychological support for future policemen.

scholarly journals Cultural development of empathy-identification and empathy-modeling

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-17
Author(s):  
Veronika V. Nourkova
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
Dynamic Representation

Background. The article develops the concept of the originality of the functions, structure and genesis of empathy-identification (EI) and empathy-modeling (EM). EI is viewed as a psychological tool for organizing joint activities such as a mono-role coalition, which has developed in anthropogenesis, and consists in the ability to appropriate the emotional states of another person. In contrast, EM is a cultural technology for maintaining joint activity such as poly-role coordination, which requires the subject of activity to create and maintain in consciousness a dynamic representation of the mental state of another person while maintaining the authenticity of awareness of his own mental state. A consequence of the conceptual separation of EO and EM is the provision of two non-matching lines of their development in ontogenesis. Objective. The aim of the article is to explicate the qualitative uniqueness of EI and EM as higher mental functions in relation to the social situation of their development and the arsenal of ideal forms, cultural means and technologies that set the content and trajectory of this development. Design. From the standpoint of cultural-evolutionary and activity-based approaches, a conceptual analysis of literature relevant to the connotative field of the proposed constructs of EI (affective empathy, emotional contamination, emotional mimicry, imitation) and EM (theory of the mental, everyday psychology, mentalization, emotional intelligence) as well as the analysis of EI and EM constructs from the point of view of cultural determination of their development in ontogenesis was performed. Results. It has been substantiated that EI is formed in the process of dyadic joint experience with an adult of various mental states, which an adult presents first in a visual way, and then verbally. Further development of EI takes place in play activities that include imagination. EI rarely reaches the level of complete voluntary regulation and needs to rely on external cultural means. EM is derived from the dialogical nature of human thinking. In ontogeny, EM is formed along two converging lines. On the one hand, mastering the mental vocabulary serves as the basis of “emotional literacy”, and, on the other hand, EM is the result of the interiorization of a specific social and communicative position — the autonomization of an adult as a mental agent in the third person. The role-playing game with the subjective “animation” of the toy is of particular importance for the development of EM. At an older age, various forms of dramatization, in particular theatrical activity, act as cultural practices for the development of EM. Conclusions. The results of the work showed that EI and EM have different sources, driving forces, ideal forms and socio-cultural technologies of formation. The originality of the lines of cultural determination of the development of EI and EM is associated with the difference in their functional role in organizing joint activities.

Research on the Marketing Strategy of Online Education -- Taking New Oriental as an Example

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jialu Chen ◽  
Yingxiao Han ◽  
An Li
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Growth Trend ◽  
Continuous Growth ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Marketing Mode ◽  
Marketing Costs

In recent years, with the development of society and the progress of science and technology, online learning has penetrated into people's daily life, and people's demand for high-quality curriculum products is more and more strong. From a macro perspective, the continuous growth of national financial investment in education, the continuous upgrading of China's consumption structure, the development of 5G technology and the popularization of AI intelligence make online teaching less limited. The online education industry is showing an explosive growth trend. More and more online education institutions are listed for financing, and the market value is soaring. However, in 2019, except for GSX, the latest online learning platforms such as New Oriental, Speak English Fluently and Sunlands, have been in a state of loss. Most of these agencies seize the market by increasing advertising investment, but at the same time, they also bring huge marketing costs, which affect the financial performance of the company. With the enhancement of Matthew effect, large-scale educational institutions occupy a large market through free classes and low-price classes, while small and medium-sized institutions with weak capital strength are often unable to afford high sales costs, facing the risk of capital chain rupture. Taking new Oriental online as an example, this paper analyzes the problems existing in the marketing strategies of online education institutions. It also puts forward suggestions on four aspects, which are target market, differentiated value, marketing mix and marketing mode, so as to make sure that online education institutions can control marketing expenses and achieve profits by improving course quality, expanding marketing channels and implementing precise positioning.

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