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ArticleJournal of King Saud University. Science2023

Causes of higher levels of stress among students in higher education who used eLearning platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic.

D Robert Selvam, S Xavier, Padmanathan Kasinathan, Mohammad Ahmad Wadaan, Muhammad Farooq Khan, Martin Santha Kumar David

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Article in Journal of King Saud University. Science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

D Robert SelvamDepartment of Advanced Zoology and Biotechnology, Loyola Health centre, Loyola College (Autonomous), Chennai 600 034, Tamil Nadu, India.
S XavierDepartment of Statistics, Loyola College (Autonomous), Chennai 600 034, Tamil Nadu, India.
Padmanathan KasinathanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Agni College of Technology, Chennai 600130, Tamil Nadu, India.
Mohammad Ahmad WadaanDepartment of Zoology, College of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box:2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Farooq KhanDepartment of Zoology, College of Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box:2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
Martin Santha Kumar DavidDepartment of Theology and Religious Studies, Ku Leuvev University, BE-3000 Leuven, Belgium.
King Saud University · SAEvangelical Theological Faculty · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: This work aims to study the levels of stress among students using e-learning platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic in higher education institutions. The major factors of higher-level stress among the student community focused on this study are: Changes in academic environment, family, social, personal, health and cognitive. Objective: the objective of this research the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) procedure was used to explore the relationship and its impact on various levels of stress. Results: Data were collected by using a total of 1,000 email IDs of students that were made available by teachers from 12 Indian higher education institutions where they were enrolled and by using a random number method. With this procedure, a total of 800 email IDs were selected. The results drawn from this research are that students experienced more stress due to sudden changes in the academic environment, family, and personal factors. The stress levels of cognitive and social were found to be equally distributed among higher education students, but less than academic environment, family and personal. This research intends to fill the gap of short-term individual psychological changes that occur after the outbreak. Conclusion: Policy-makers can take note of the current study's observations in continuing their fight against COVID-19 pandemic by improving the stability for student risk groups.

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Academic EnvironmentCluster AnalysisCovid-19Personal and Cognitive FactorsPLS-SEMStress

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PMID36987441
PMCPMC10032052
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