Mental Health Stressors in Higher Education Instructors and Students in Mexico During the Emergency Remote Teaching Implementation due to Covid-19

Bibliographic Data

ID22166751
AuthorsRogelio Zapata-Garibay (0000-0002-6533-113X, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, corresponding author), Jesús Eduardo González-Fagoaga (0000-0003-1855-0564, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California), Ahmed Ali Asadi-González (0000-0001-8262-7613, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California), Julio Román Martínez-Alvarado (0000-0002-4303-2809, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California), Silvia M Chávez-Baray (0000-0002-6301-1378, The University of Texas at El Paso), Ismael Plascencia-López, Ismael Plascencia López (0000-0003-2860-1417, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California), Clara Judith González-Fagoaga (0000-0001-9023-0085, Universidad Anáhuac)
Year2021
Volume6
Publication date2021-06-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2504-284X • E-ISSN: 2504-284X
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/feduc.2021.670400
OpenAlexW3172599327
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited42

The COVID 19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the physical and emotional health of the population. In the case of specific populations, such as students and instructors, the change in the teaching-learning model has required both groups to adapt to online learning platforms and modify all academic activities in the context of implementing the emergency remote education model. The relevance of mental health has been continually neglected; however, due to the COVID-19 epidemiological outbreak, the impact of confinement on populations’ mental health has been incorporated into public discussion. In particular, the health emergency’s impact on health workers in the first line of care has been highlighted. The effect of mental health on the lockdown population and those encouraged to work from home, a group in which university professors and students are located, has been emphasized. To understand the changes faced by higher education instructors and students, derived from the implementation of the emergency remote teaching model in the context of the pandemic, we developed a study to investigate the experiences of this sector, with particular emphasis on the mental health stressors associated with their academic activities. We examined indicators related to anxiety, depression, motivation-demotivation, coping, and contextual and family conditions that could generate stress in the teaching-learning process during the emergency remote teaching model. We recruited a sample of 1,040 participants (380 instructors and 660 students) from more than 97 universities and 118 academic programs across the country. As a result, we have found that teachers have faced less difficulty with the teaching-learning model changes and how they deal with confinement. Similarly, this study has identified that women in general, both instructors and students, have more significant signs and symptoms related to mental health conditions, while men, both instructors, and students, resent the lack of socialization in the work and study centers environments

Anxiety · Environmental health · Geography · Medical education · Mental health · Pandemic · Population · Psychiatry · Public health · Stressor · Clinical Psychology · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Educational Innovations and Technology · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Stress and Burnout Research