IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

International Journal of Education and Evaluation (IJEE )

E-ISSN 2489-0073
P-ISSN 2695-1940
VOL. 10 NO. 5 2024
DOI: 10.56201/ijee.v10.no5.2024.pg241.253

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Impact of Covid-19 Psychological Trauma on Self-Efficacy among Students of School of Undergraduate Studies, Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare

Sa’ad Abubakar Idris, Yakubu Bala

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Abstract

The study examined the impact of covid-19 psychological trauma on self-efficacy among students of school of undergraduate studies, Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare. The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the psychological wellbeing of students, pandemic resulted in unprecedented levels of psychological distress as a collective trauma requiring a population health approach. Four (4) objectives, research questions and hypotheses were raised and tested in the study. The study delimited to impact of covid-19 psychological trauma of anxiety, stress and depression on self-efficacy among students of School of Undergraduate Studies, Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare. An Ex-Post facto research design of the survey type was adopted in the study. The population of the study comprised of all Undergraduate Students of Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare with the population of 2,291 students. Multistage sampling techniques were used to draw the sample of 322 respondents in the study. Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-42) and the General Self-Efficacy Scale. The instrument subjected to pilot study using 50 students from NCE programme the result shows that DASS-42 has a good Cronbach’s alpha value of 0.89, 0.91 and 0.90 for depression, anxiety and stress subscales and also the GSE items showed high internal consistency (Cronbach alpha = 0.95) which determines the validity of the items. Data were collected with the help of four (4) research assistants. Descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentage were used to analyze the demographic information of the respondents. Pearson Product Moment Correlation used to test hypotheses 1 – 3, while linear regression was used in testing hypothesis 4 using latest version of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The finding of the study concludes that, students in School of Undergraduate Studies, Aminu Saleh College of Education, Azare were psychologically stressed

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