COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL BEHAVIORS OF ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS: AN EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION

Abstract

This investigation sought to examine the impacts of the dreaded Convid-19 pandemic
has on the Psycho-emotional behavior of academic researchers. In view of the above the
study utilized five classic psycho-emotions measures; Depression, Anxiety, Joy, psychostress
and self-assurance. Non-experimental research design; a survey randomly carried
out on 43 academic researchers electronically for which data collated were subjected to
inferential statistical test and all five null hypotheses were rejected showing correlation
between Covid-19 pandemic and academics Psycho-emotional behavior. Specifically,
findings revealed that COVID-19 pandemic is positive and significantly related to
depression amongst academic researchers. Also, There is a positively significant link
between Covid-19 pandemic and anxiety amongst academic researchers. However,
There seems to be an inverse but significant correlation between Covid-19 pandemic and
joyfulness amongst academic researchers. The study equally revealed strong positive
significant link between the COVID-19 pandemic and psychological stress amongst
academic researchers, but finally shows inverse relationship between COVID-19
pandemic and self-assurance among academic researchers. Sequel to the above findings
the investigation recommends that to combat depression and anxiety, academic
researchers should engage in fraternal discussion and seek help where necessary. In
addition, Academic researchers should observe NCDC guidelines to abase the rise of
deadly infectious diseases like Covid-19 and its kinds to boost their self-assurance, joy
and reduce psycho-stress as evidence in the examination.