Emotional impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the students of the Chimborazo polytechnic school in Ecuador

Abstract

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, students have been affected not only in their educational process, but also in their mental, physical and spiritual health. The effects of this health situation involved difficulties in establishing adequate social relationships, economic difficulties and health problems in general. That is why the research focuses on the study of the emotional impact and psychological consequences of confinement by COVID-19 on students. The objective is to analyze the emotions of the students of the Chimborazo Polytechnic School in times of COVID-19, as well as the emotional impact produced, in a way that allows the implementation of measures that help overcome the psychological traumas that these emotions caused. The research has a descriptive scope and a qualitative approach, where a questionnaire was applied to find out the main feelings that marked the students in the COVID-19 pandemic stage, as well as the main emotional impacts received. It was applied to 99 students of the Polytechnic School of Chimborazo in Ecuador. The results indicated that the majority of the students presented substantial emotional changes since the beginning of the pandemic. The main positive emotions identified were hope, optimism and motivation, while worry, stress, anxiety and fear stood out among the negative ones. For all these reasons, it is concluded that the psychological impact caused was severe from their family, social and educational environment.