Estresse acadêmico antes/durante a pandemia do novo coronavírus: um estudo transversal

Abstract

This study aimed to analyse reports of academic stress in undergraduate students before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were 575 undergraduate students, split in two groups. Data was collected at two different times, face to face (sample 1) and online (sample 1 and sample 2) and analyse using the software Iramuteq. The descendant hierarchical classification analysis indicated a dendogram composed by three classes, for corpus 1 (before the pandemic): “Dynamics and academic structure”; “University adaptation and demands” and “Ill-being in the academic context”; similarly, for corpus 2 (during the pandemic): “Aspects related to family and interpersonal relationships”; “Emotional aspects” and “Stress and academic ill-being caused by the pandemic”. The analyses of the world cloud indicated two triads of more emblematic terms for each corpus: “lecturer – university – student” and “pandemic – social distancing – family”. We concluded that the study of these two periods contributes to a meaningful interpretation of undergraduate students psychological health, supporting the development of educational strategies and interventions.