The impact of COVID-19 on college students

Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus in December 2019, in order to prevent the epidemic from continuing to escalate, the country has launched a first-level response to public health emergencies. Major cities have successively restricted travel and people have been isolated at home. On January 28, 2020, the Ministry of Education issued a notice to postpone the start of school. Each school took corresponding measures and advocated "suspension of classes without suspension of learning" to open online courses.

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For college students, the epidemic not only has a huge impact on daily life, but also changes their learning methods. It may also cause them to develop some psychological problems, such as fear, anxiety, depression, etc. In the journal "Frontiers of Social Sciences" published by Hans Publishing House, there are papers focusing on these emerging psychological problems and the need to take relevant measures as soon as possible to enable college students to grow up healthier.

College students are in the transition period from campus to society. Their physiology and psychology are still at a critical stage of development, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in self-discipline and regulation abilities. Faced with a lack of experience in dealing with sudden, serious and unexpected public health emergencies like COVID-19, they can easily develop emotional problems and corresponding problematic behaviors. If negative emotions are not discovered and guided in time and corresponding measures are taken, it can easily cause a series of psychological problems, leading to the emergence of psychological disorders, such as acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, etc. .

During the epidemic, major universities will collect students' physical health information in real time, obtain the health status of students during the epidemic in a timely manner, and lay a solid foundation for the school's student work. But we must know that body and mind are integrated, and physical health and mental health are coexisting. Schools must not only understand the physical condition of students, but also the psychological condition of students.

In addition, academic anxiety has become a common topic. In the past, only a small number of students in schools had academic anxiety. However, due to this public health and safety emergency, students can only conduct online activities. Taking the course has had a huge impact on their learning. Many students develop academic anxiety because they have poor academic performance or poor usual academic performance, so they think they are not capable, which leads to anxiety. Due to the impact of the epidemic, many students have low learning efficiency and unsatisfactory learning results, which easily makes some students doubt their abilities and lead to academic anxiety.

As a public health emergency, the outbreak and epidemic of COVID-19 have triggered a series of social changes that have not only brought great changes to students’ study and life, but also It has had a great impact on their psychological condition. Colleges and universities should systematically carry out student work, dispatch dedicated personnel to take charge of student psychological censuses, understand students' mental health conditions, and carry out mental health education and assistance such as psychological lectures, psychological assistance, and psychological intervention for different students. At the same time, we actively guide students' academic activities, adjust their unreasonable cognitions, help them establish new goals, stimulate and maintain their learning motivation, and enable them to better return to learning activities. Actively and properly carry out employment training for students who are about to graduate, to help students get rid of the anxiety of career selection, so that students can carry out career selection activities normally.