A Cross-Sectional Study on Mental Health of School Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Sibnath Deb, Samarjit Kar, Shayana Deb, Sanjib Biswas, Aehsan Ahmad Dar and Tusharika Mukherjee
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Sibnath Deb: Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Post Box No. 6, Sriperumbudur Post, Sriperumbudur 602105, India
Samarjit Kar: National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Mahatma Gandhi Rd, A-Zone, Durgapur 713209, India
Shayana Deb: Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to Be University), Hosur Rd, Bhavani Nagar, S.G. Palya, Bengaluru 560029, India
Sanjib Biswas: Calcutta Business School, Bishnupur 743503, India
Aehsan Ahmad Dar: Department of Psychology, School of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, SRM University Neeru Konda, Amaravati 522502, India
Tusharika Mukherjee: Department of Psychology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Ludwigstraße 23, 35390 Gießen, Germany

Data, 2022, vol. 7, issue 7, 1-27

Abstract: The broad objective of the present study is to assess the levels of anxiety and depression of school students during the COVID-19 lockdown phase and their association with students’ background, stress, concerns and social support. In this regard, the present study follows a novel two stage approach. In the first phase, an empirical survey was carried out, based on multivariate statistical analysis, wherein a group of 273 school students participated in the study voluntarily. In the second phase, a novel Picture Fuzzy FFA (PF-FFA) method was applied for understanding the dynamics of facilitating and prohibiting factors for three categories of focus groups (FG), formulated on the basis of attendance in online classes. Findings revealed a significant impact of anxiety and depression on mental health. Further, PF-FFA examinedthe impact of the driving forces that steered children to attend class as contrasted to the the impact of the restricting forces.

Keywords: school students; COVID-19; mental health; social support; picture fuzzy force field analysis (PF-FFA); level based weight assessment (LBWA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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