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- Title
Helplessness among University Students: An Empirical Study Based on a Modified Framework of Implicit Personality Theories.
- Authors
Ziegler, Albert; Bedenlier, Svenja; Gläser-Zikuda, Michaela; Kopp, Bärbel; Händel, Marion
- Abstract
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and within a very short period of time, teaching in the 2020 summer term changed from predominantly on-site to online instruction. Students suddenly faced having to adapt their learning process to new demands for which they may have had both insufficient digital skills and a lack of learning resources. Such a situation carries the risk that a substantial number of students become helpless. The aim of our empirical study was to test a hybrid framework of helplessness that includes both objective causes of helplessness and students' subjective interpretations of them. Before lectures or courses began, students of a full-scale university were invited to participate in an online survey. The final sample consists of 1690 students. Results indicate that objective factors as well as their subjective interpretations contributed to the formation of helplessness.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; COLLEGE students; ONLINE education; DIGITAL learning; LEARNING
- Publication
Education Sciences, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 10, p630
- ISSN
2227-7102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/educsci11100630