The Impact of COVID-19 on College Students' Consumption Behaviors

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit global economy, and it has also greatly affected all industries with college students as the core consumer group. Through the questionnaire survey, this paper found that during the epidemic period, college students' consumption in catering and tourism decreased significantly, the utilization rate of supermarket flash delivery services was not high, and they were not satisfied with the services provided by online education. In terms of college students' consumption tendency after the epidemic, their willingness to consume in catering industry is relatively strong, while their willingness to consume in tourism is not high. The overall consumption level of college students has been on the rise during the epidemic period, with specific increases in online spending on education, daily necessities, online shopping and medical supplies, and decreases in catering, offline retail and traffic tour. Based on the problems found and the development rules of the industries, this paper puts forward corresponding operational countermeasures for the operators of the above industries to help them better carry out the post-epidemic recovery work.

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on College Students: An Online Survey

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su131910762 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (19) ◽

pp. 10762

Author(s):

Thien Khai Tran ◽

Hoa Dinh ◽

Hien Nguyen ◽

Dac-Nhuong Le ◽

Dong-Ky Nguyen ◽

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Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Online Education ◽

Large Scale ◽

Online Survey ◽

Statistical Tests ◽

Human Life ◽

Negative Mood ◽

Psychological State ◽

Survey Analysis ◽

The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic, since its beginning in December 2019, has altered every aspect of human life. In Vietnam, the pandemic is in its fourth peak and is the most serious so far, putting Vietnam in the list of top 30 countries with the highest daily cases. In this paper, we wish to identify the magnitude of its impact on college students in Vietnam. As far as we’re concerned, college students belong to the most affected groups in the population, especially in big cities that have been hitting hard by the virus. We conducted an online survey from 31 May 2021 to 9 June 2021, asking students from four representative regions in Vietnam to describe how the pandemic has changed their lifestyle and studying environment, as well as their awareness, compliance, and psychological state. The collected answers were processed to eliminate unreliable ones then prepared for sentiment analysis. To analyze the relationship among the variables, we performed a variety of statistical tests, including Shapiro–Wilk, Mc Nemar, Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon, Kruskal–Wallis, and Pearson’s Chi-square tests. Among 1875 students who participated, many did not embrace online education. A total of 64.53% of them refused to think that online education would be the upcoming trend. During the pandemic, nearly one quarter of students were in a negative mood. About the same number showed signs of depression. We also observed that there were increasing patterns in sleeping time, body weight, and sedentary lifestyle. However, they maintained a positive attitude toward health protection and compliance with government regulations (65.81%). As far as we know, this is the first project to conduct such a large-scale survey analysis on students in Vietnam. The findings of the paper help us take notice of financial and mental needs and perspective issues for indigent students, which contributes to reducing the pandemic’s negative effects and going forwards to a better and more sustainable life.

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Impact of the epidemic on the world economy

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/202235502045 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 355 ◽

pp. 02045

Author(s):

Zihuan Feng ◽

Xun Liang ◽

Binqing Cai

Keyword(s):

Online Education ◽

Global Economy ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Multiple Perspectives ◽

Home Office ◽

Culture And Health ◽

Health Organization ◽

Education Culture ◽

Office Software ◽

The Impact

The impact of the epidemic on the global economy has exposed the fragility and complexity of the internal and external economic system, and the global economic situation is not optimistic. Taking the epidemic as an example, this paper analyzed the impact of emergencies on the global economy from multiple perspectives. The outbreak of the epidemic has made most offline businesses shut down overnight. At the same time, it has also led to the rapid development of online economy, such as online education, home office software, video entertainment and so on. The outbreak and spread of the epidemic has promoted the digital upgrading of all walks of life, including online government affairs, commerce, science, education, culture and health organization, operation and maintenance. The era of digital economy has come, and digitization is the general trend.

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Optimal Model of Emergency Medical Supplies Stowage under Traffic Control during the Initial Period of the Epidemic Based on Characteristics Analysis of COVID-19 Epidemic

Mathematical Problems in Engineering ◽

10.1155/2021/5578047 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-14

Author(s):

Xiaoyuan Wu ◽

Fengping Wu ◽

Mengke Li ◽

Yingwen Ji

Keyword(s):

Traffic Control ◽

Optimization Model ◽

Programming Model ◽

Initial Period ◽

Optimal Decision ◽

Medical Supplies ◽

Emergency Medical ◽

Epidemic Period ◽

Epidemic Area ◽

The Impact

In the initial stage, the epidemic area is relatively concentrated, and some traffic modes may be subject to traffic control. In this period, the timely delivery of adequate emergency medical supplies to the epidemic points will play an important role in controlling the spread of the epidemic. However, the existing emergency medical supplies loading optimization model has not taken the initial period of the epidemic as the research time nor fully considered the traffic control situation in that period. Therefore, combined with the characteristics of the initial epidemic period of COVID-19, this study establishes an optimization model for emergency medical supplies stowage at the rescue point, considering the variation in demand for different kinds of medical supplies at the epidemic point in different cycles and the impact of traffic control on the mode of transportation. The model is an integer programming model. The objective function is the least total cost, including total transportation cost and total inventory cost. The constraints include the supply limit of each medical material that can be provided by the rescue point, the transportation capacity limit of the transportation mode, the demand constraints, inventory constraints, nonnegative constraints, and integer variable constraints of various medical supplies in each cycle of the epidemic location. Finally, combining the development of the epidemic situation in Wuhan January 18–23, 2020, a case study was carried out, and the optimal combination of different transportation modes and different stowage schemes in different periods of the rescue point was obtained, which verified the feasibility and practicality of the model. The model constructed in this study can provide a theoretical reference to the optimal decision-making plan of emergency medical supplies of the implementation of traffic control during the initial period of emergency public health events.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Consumers’ Psychological Behavior Based on Data Mining for Online User Comments in the Catering Industry in China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18084178 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (8) ◽

pp. 4178

Author(s):

Chenyu Zhang ◽

Jiayue Jiang ◽

Hong Jin ◽

Tinggui Chen

Keyword(s):

Sentiment Analysis ◽

Chinese Text ◽

Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽

Consumer Preferences ◽

Consumer Preference ◽

Catering Industry ◽

Psychological Behavior ◽

Epidemic Period ◽

Before And After ◽

The Impact

The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 has had a huge impact on people’s daily life. Many restaurant businesses have been greatly affected by it. Consumers’ preferences for catering industry in China have changed, such as environmental hygiene, variety of dishes, and service methods. Therefore, the analysis of consumer preference differences and changes before and after the epidemic can not only provide emergency strategies for the catering industry but further improve the catering industry’s ability to deal with public health emergencies. This paper takes five cities in China as representatives to explore the impact of COVID-19 on China’s catering industry. Based on catering review data from August 2019 to April 2020, this paper first carries out Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic analysis and SNOWNLP (A Python library for processing Chinese text) sentiment analysis. Then this paper compares the results of topic classification and sentiment analysis before and after the epidemic. Furthermore, differences and changes of consumer preferences are obtained and preferences of consumers under COVID-19 are analyzed and forecasted. The results of LDA thematic analysis before the outbreak of COVID-19 show that consumers tend to punch in cyber celebrity restaurants and pay more attention to the taste of dishes, whereas after it consumers pay more attention to the changes of dishes, dining environment as well as epidemic prevention. The number of packages and takeout was also increasing. However, the waiting time is constantly considered by consumers before and after COVID-19. Firstly, to our surprise, final outcome of emotional analysis showed that consumers’ emotional state was more positive after the epidemic than before. COVID-19 has changed the lifestyle of consumers, consumption concepts, and consumption habits. Therefore, businesses also need to take positive and flexible measures to actively get feedback from consumers to adjust dishes and business methods. Secondly, the psychological attitude of catering consumers is relatively positive during the epidemic period, which indicates that consumers have great confidence in the recovery and development of the catering industry. Businesses can comply with consumers’ psychology and combine consumption vouchers with restaurant discounts to promote consumers’ consumption. Finally, the environment and service play more and more important effect on consumers’ emotional scores at present, which indicates that dining state and comfortable mealtime environment are becoming increasingly valuable. Therefore, businesses need to improve service standards.

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Investigation and Analysis of College Students’ Online Learning Behavior in the Post-epidemic Era—Take Suqian College as an Example

Journal of Education and Culture Studies ◽

10.22158/jecs.v5n2p67 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. p67

Author(s):

Luo Youhao ◽

Yang Jianxiang

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Online Learning ◽

Online Education ◽

School Environment ◽

Online Teaching ◽

Development Trend ◽

Educational Work ◽

Epidemic Period ◽

The World ◽

E Learning

The COVID-19 epidemic broke out in the world in 2020. With the continuous efforts of people all over the world for a year, the development trend of the epidemic was gradually restrained, and countries began to enter the post-epidemic period one after another. With the students from all over the country returning to school gradually, how to strengthen the normal study of young college students and how to restore the normal teaching order in schools is a huge challenge to both schools and students during this special period of epidemic prevention and control. This paper starts with the phenomenon that the learning effect of online education for college students in Suqian University is not ideal, and carries out on-the-spot questionnaire survey to explore the problem. According to the research, some students have cultivated their good learning habits in the home-school environment, but there are still some problems, such as the majority of students lack of inertial thinking of online learning, lack of attention to online learning and unable to find a suitable mixed online teaching model. Schools should select appropriate teaching models to guide students to participate in online learning. Students should also actively cooperate with teachers to carry out educational work, restrain themselves and devote themselves to study within the stipulated time. Finally, I hope that this paper can effectively promote the development of online e-learning by putting forward some countermeasures and suggestions for the construction of high-quality e-learning model in schools.

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Digital Divide in Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cosmetic Course From the View of the Regional Socioeconomic Distribution

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.796210 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Mengmeng Sun ◽

Lidan Xiong ◽

Li Li ◽

Yu Chen ◽

Jie Tang ◽

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Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Online Education ◽

Digital Divide ◽

Online Courses ◽

Socioeconomic Factor ◽

Least Squares Regression ◽

Population Number ◽

Before And After ◽

Cosmetic Dermatology ◽

The Impact

Objectives: During the pandemic, quarantine has led to the lockdown of many physical educational institutions. Thus, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have become a more common choice for participants. MOOCs are often flagged as supplemental methods to educational disparities caused by regional socioeconomic distribution. However, dissenters argue that MOOCs can exacerbate the digital divide. This study aimed to compare the participants' performance before and after the outbreak of COVID-19, analyze the impact of the epidemic on online education of cosmetic dermatology from the view of the regional socioeconomic distribution, and investigate whether MOOCs exacerbate the digital divide in the COVID-19 epidemic.Methods: The study was conducted in participants of the MOOC course Appreciation and Analysis of Cosmetics from January 2018 to December 2020. Based on the platform data and official socioeconomic statistics, correlation of multivariate analysis was used to determine the factors related to the number of total participants. A panel regression model and stepwise least squares regression analysis (STEPLS) were employed to further analyze the relationship between GDP, population, number of college students and number of total participants in different years in the eastern, central and western regions of China.Results: The number of total participants in 2020 surged 82.02% compared with that in 2019. Completion rates were generally stable in 2018 and 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic and significantly decreased in 2020 after the outbreak of the pandemic. GDP was the most important socioeconomic factor that determined the total number of participants and it was positively related to the total number of participants before and after the outbreak of the pandemic. The number of college students was unrelated to the total number of participants before the epidemic, and after the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, the number became positively related in all regions of China.Conclusions: This study shows that the epidemic pushes more people to choose MOOCs to study cosmetic dermatology, and online education could exacerbate rather than reduce disparities that are related to regional and socioeconomic status in the cosmetic field in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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