Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Life of Higher Education Students: Global Survey Dataset from the First Wave
Published: 15 November 2021| Version 2 | DOI: 10.17632/88y3nffs82.2
Contributors:
Muji Gunarto, Diena Dwidienawati, Meirav Hen, Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo, Isaac Mensah Boafo, Naima Benkari, Chunlin Yao, Norhafezah Yusof, Manuel Gericota, Pavol Kráľ, Prosper Lutala, Abdel-Aziz Sharabati, Sujita Kumar Kar, Tengiz Verulava, Ryan Michael Oducado, Harold Jan Terano, Olawale Festus Olaniyan, Bo Pu, MoezAlIslam E. Faris, Lan Umek, Aleksander Aristovnik, Dejan Ravšelj, Damijana Keržič, Nina Tomaževič, Toyin Cotties Adetiba, Agustine Ramie, Bibi Alajmi, Sultan Ghaleb Aldaihani, Said Aldhafri, Jogymol Alex, Yusuf Alpayadin, Roxana Pamela Balbontín Alvarado, Parag Amin, George Kofi Amoako, Andy Choi Yeung, Sorin Gabriel Anton, Arheiam Arheiam, Sofia Asonitou, Martin Mabunda Baluku, Mohammad Bashaar, Justyna Podgórska-Bednarz, Belinka González-Fernández, Joy Benatov, Denilson da Silva Bezerra, Roberto Burro, Michael P. Cameron, Silvia Cantele, Maria Cheraghi, Yi-Lin Chiang, Simeon-Pierre Choukem, Özkan Cikrikci, Baye Dagnew, Adetutu Deborah Aina, Beata Dobrowolska, Falk Ebinger, Arri Eisen, Mahmoud M. Emam, Ervin Iusein, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Stefania Fantinelli, Ali Farooq, Paulo Ferrinho, Barbara Fogarty-Perry, Aurora Lopez-Fogues, Thais França, Bongani Thulani Gamede, Yongtao Gan, Paul Gorczynski, Grover Sandeep, Adam Gyedu, Soumeyya Halayem, Sarah J. Halvorson, Fahad Ahmed Al-Harbi, Syed Ahmad Helmi Bin Syed Hassan, Nazir S. Hawi, Shiva Heidari, Azita Hekmatdoost, Meeri Hellsten, Evelyne Hübscher, Fany Inasius, Takashi Inoguchi, Jadranka Đurović-Todorović, Silvana G. Navarro, Virtudes Pérez-Jover, Maja Arslanagić-Kalajdžić, Sedighe Sadat Hashemi Kamangar, Elham Kateeb, Amrita Kaur, Kerefu Lawrence Joseph, Aleksandar Kešeljević, Hiroko Kudo, P.A.P. Samantha Kumara, Murodbek Laldjebaev, Kornélia Lazányi, Florin Lazăr, Paul H. Lee, Poliana Mihaela Leru, Rataya Luechapudiporn, Philippe N. Lukanu, Marwa Madi, Piotr Major, Joseph Muthiani Malechwanzi, Maria Malliarou, Niko Männikkö, Maria Fedorova, João P. Maroco, Bertil P. Marques, João Matias, Milena Milićević, Marek Milosz, José Joaquín Mira, Marta Miret, Alpana Mishra, Masoud Mohammadnezhad, Cristina Mollica, Immanuel Azaad Moonesar, Nicolas J. Mouawad, Elfi Mu'awanah, Dilbar Mukhamedova, Lillias Hamufari Natsai Mutambara, David Musyimi Ndetei, Nga Nguyen, Singhanat Nomnian, Alka Obadić, Octavian Andronic, Oluwatoyin Ayodele Ajani, Izabela Ostoj, Luis Armando Ramos Palacios, Efstathia Papageorgiou, Nino Paresashvili, Shirona Patel, Susan Kane Patton, Lidia Perenc, Harm Peters, Jana Meloska Petrova, Silvia Mariela Méndez Prado, Eka Sunarwidhi Prasedya, Sumayyah Qudah, Daniela Raccanello, Mamun Ur Rashid, Vijayalakshmi Reddy, Iveta Reinholde, Alex Riolexus Ario, Luz María González-Robledo, Maya Roche, Ana Sofia Rodrigues, Oliva Mejía-Rodríguez, Danilo V. Rogayan, Piotr Rzymski, Fahad Saleem, Roberta Sammut, Oana Săndulescu, Rinku Sanjeev, Muhammad Saqib, Pavlos Sarafis, Muthupandian Saravanan, Mariano Schlez, Magdalena Waleska Aldana-Segura, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Akkaya Senkrua, Bidhan Shrestha, Aggrey Siya, Ricarda Steinmayr, Eveline Surbakti, Rajanikanta Swain, Vanphanom Sychareun, Snežana Šćepanović, David Špaček, Ivana Tadić, Kathy W. Tannous, Maha El Tantawi, Telesphore Kabera, Mehmet S. Tosun, Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan, Chinaza Uleanya, Olga Ushakova, Thomas Varghese, Daina Vasilevska, Giada Vicentini, Sornkanok Vimolmangkang, Sanja Tatalović Vorkapić, Jeffrey Dawala Wilang, Angelique Wildschut, Nikolay N. Yagodka, Guo-liang Yang, Yariv Itzkovich, Shehla A. Yasin, Adrian P. Ybañez, Özlem Yorulmaz, Ana-Maria Zamfir, Yunquan Zhang, Michaela Cortini, Ibeawuchi K Enwereuzor, Vera Dimitrievska, Oksana Zhirosh, Konstantinos Karampelas, al. et
Description
The Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has completely reshaped the lives of people around the world, including higher
education students. Beyond serious health consequences for a proportion of those directly affected by the virus, the pandemic holds important
implications for the life and work of higher education students, considerably affecting their physical and mental well-being. To capture how
students perceived the first wave of the pandemic’s impact, one of the most comprehensive and large-scale online surveys across the world was
conducted. Carried out between 5 May 2020 and 15 June 2020, the survey came at a time when most countries were experiencing the arduous lockdown
restrictions. The online questionnaire was prepared in seven different languages (English, Italian, North Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian,
Spanish, Turkish) and covered various aspects of higher education students’ life, including socio-demographic and academic characteristics,
academic life, infrastructure and skills for studying from home, social life, emotional life and life circumstances. Using the convenience
sampling method, the online questionnaire was distributed to higher education students aged 18 and over and enrolled in a higher education
institution. The final dataset consisted of 31,212 responses from 133 countries and 6 continents. The data may prove useful for researchers
studying the pandemic’s impacts on various aspects of student life. Policymakers can utilize the data to determine the best solutions as they
formulate policy recommendations and strategies to support students during this and any future pandemic.
Acknowledgments:
The extensive dataset could not be collected without the numerous international partners who provided the exceptional assistance with
questionnaire translation and/or data collection. This work also acknowledges the international partners, who may have been unintentionally
omitted from authorship due to the snowball recruitment technique. Special thanks go also to anonymous global survey participants for their
valuable insights into the lives of students, which they shared selflessly. The authors also acknowledge the CovidSocLab project
(http://www.covidsoclab.org/) as a working platform for international collaboration.
Funding:
The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding No. P5-0093).
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Institutions
Univerze v Ljubljani Fakulteta za upravo
Categories
Mental Health, Institution, e-Learning, University Student, Academic Learning, COVID-19