Students in Turkey During the Early Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Published in: Applied Research in Quality of Life Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 249 - 277
• Main Authors: Caglayan Akay, Ebru, Dumludag, Devrim, Bulbul, Hoseng, Zulfuoglu, Ozkan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.02.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: College faculty; College students; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Economic factors; Frequency distribution; Happiness; Higher education; Life satisfaction; Mental disorders; Mental health; Online instruction; Pandemics; Physical education; Political Science; Quality of Life Research; Social Sciences; Sociodemographics; Socioeconomic factors; Sociology; University students; Well being; Istanbul Turkey; China; Turkey; Happiness; Covid-19; Student; Life satisfaction
• ISSN: 1871-2584; 1871-2576
• DOI: 10.1007/s11482-022-10118-z

This study aims to analyse the subjective well-being of university students during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic process and to examine how students have been affected economically, psychologically and socially. Other subjects included in the scope of the study are the suitability of the physical conditions during the process of online education, the students’ motivation, and their expectations towards the future. The study also analyses the connection between these factors and the subjective well-being concepts of happiness and life satisfaction. The study focuses on students of the Faculty of Economics at Marmara University in Turkey. In total, 428 students took part in the survey prepared for the study. Descriptive analyses indicate that students have been negatively affected in terms of psychological and socio-economic factors along with subjective well-being. Ordered probit models show a statistically significant relationship between a major part of these changes and subjective well-being variables.