Improving Mental Wellbeing of Undergraduate Students During COVID-19 Pandemic
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210120.110How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Mental Wellbeing, Expressive Writing, Emotion
- Abstract
The research investigated the emotions and evaluated the effectiveness of undergraduate students on Expressive Writing during the online learning process in the pandemic of COVID-19. The subjects are 122 undergraduate students divided into experiment and control groups. The quasi-experimental and thematic analysis method was used to analyze the data. The data were collected by conducting pretest, observation, and posttest. Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) was used on pretest and posttest to measure the undergraduate students’ mental wellbeing. WEMWBS is a 14-item scale covering subjective wellbeing and psychological functioning. The research reveals three major findings. Firstly, inboth the control and experimental groups, females experienced positive changes in wellbeing scores, while males did not experience positive changes. Secondly, the mean score of mental wellbeing in the control group slightly increases, which is not significant. Thirdly, it also finds no significant difference between pretest and posttest scores in both experiment and control groups. In other words, Expressive Writing could not improve undergraduate students’ mental wellbeing. This study’s results are valuable for educators, students, and education practitioners to develop mental wellbeing treatment.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ratna Sari AU - M Nurul Ikhsan Saleh PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/21 TI - Improving Mental Wellbeing of Undergraduate Students During COVID-19 Pandemic BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2020–Social, Humanity, and Education (ICoSIHESS 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 88 EP - 95 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210120.110 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210120.110 ID - Sari2021 ER -