Well-Being and Stress of Children in Teaching by Digital Means during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case in Santarém, Brazilian Amazonia

Kaio Vinícius Paiva Albarado, Iani Dias Lauer-Leite, Dennison Célio de Oliveira Carvalho and Thiago Almeida Vieira
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Kaio Vinícius Paiva Albarado: Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Pará, Altamira 68372-191, Brazil
Iani Dias Lauer-Leite: Postgraduate Program in Society, Environment and Quality of Life (PPGSAQ), Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém 68040-255, Brazil
Dennison Célio de Oliveira Carvalho: Centre for Interdisciplinary Formation, Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém 68040-255, Brazil
Thiago Almeida Vieira: Postgraduate Program in Society, Environment and Quality of Life (PPGSAQ), Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém 68040-255, Brazil

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused and is still causing many infections. An important change brought about by prevention actions was the closing of schools, and the adoption of teaching by digital means in private institutions. In this article, we aim to analyze the subjective well-being and stress of children aged 8 to 12 years in digital education during the COVID-19 pandemic in a city in the Brazilian Amazon. For data collection, we used the Children’s Global Life Satisfaction Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Life Satisfaction for Children (MSLSC), and the Infantile Stress Scale, all via Google Forms. To analyze the data, we used descriptive statistics, correlation between variables and logistic regression. The Family domain obtained higher scores (4.54 ± 0.45). The Infantile Stress Scale showed that the children were in a normal phase, with some of them in an alert and even resistance phase. There was a strong positive correlation between the Family domain (r = 0.70; p -value < 0.05) and the Self domain (r = 0.70; p -value < 0.001). The higher the value of the predictor variable (Family domain), the lower the chances of a child belonging to the Resistance category. Therefore, the Family domain is an important component of children’s well-being, acting as a protective factor against child stress.

Keywords: subjective well-being; quality of life; coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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