The Psychological Safety of the Educational Environment of Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions in a Pandemic: Empirical Data of a Comparative Analysis of Participants' Assessments Studying Online

Olena Bondarchuk, Valentyna Balakhtar, Yuriy Ushenko, Olena Gorova, Iryna Osovska, Nataliia Pinchuk, Nataliia Yakubovska, Kateryna Balakhtar, Kateryna Balakhtar, Maksym Moskalov

2020

Abstract

This paper highlights the problem of ensuring the psychological safety of participants of the educational process in the mass transition to distance learning, caused by the complex conditions of our time and the specific features of the digital environment in the COVID-19 pandemic. The study demonstrates the results of a comparative analysis of students' assessments studying online in a pandemic, the peculiarities of the psychological safety of the educational environment and its impact on students studying online in a pandemic. Also, this paper reveals the insufficient tendency to decrease the level of psychological safety of the educational environment for a significant number of subjects. There are statistically significant differences in the peculiarities of the psychological safety of participants in the educational process as to gender, age, and status. The survey of participants in the educational process presents the results as to their attitude to the peculiarities of learning under the conditions of the COVID-19. They testify to the deterioration of psychological safety in the educational environment of higher education institutions, and, accordingly, the subjective well-being of participants in the educational process in a pandemic. There was a decrease in the number of respondents with a positive attitude to distance learning and a willingness to work exclusively online. The study displays the expediency of full-time and distance learning as such, which is optimal for the organization of the educational process and contributes to the psychological safety of participants in the educational process.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bondarchuk O., Balakhtar V., Ushenko Y., Gorova O., Osovska I., Pinchuk N., Yakubovska N., Balakhtar K. and Moskalov M. (2020). The Psychological Safety of the Educational Environment of Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions in a Pandemic: Empirical Data of a Comparative Analysis of Participants' Assessments Studying Online. In Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 1: AET, ISBN 978-989-758-558-6, pages 14-31. DOI: 10.5220/0010920100003364

in Bibtex Style

@conference{aet20,
author={Olena Bondarchuk and Valentyna Balakhtar and Yuriy Ushenko and Olena Gorova and Iryna Osovska and Nataliia Pinchuk and Nataliia Yakubovska and Kateryna Balakhtar and Maksym Moskalov},
title={The Psychological Safety of the Educational Environment of Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions in a Pandemic: Empirical Data of a Comparative Analysis of Participants' Assessments Studying Online},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 1: AET,},
year={2020},
pages={14-31},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010920100003364},
isbn={978-989-758-558-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Advances in Educational Technology - Volume 1: AET,
TI - The Psychological Safety of the Educational Environment of Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions in a Pandemic: Empirical Data of a Comparative Analysis of Participants' Assessments Studying Online
SN - 978-989-758-558-6
AU - Bondarchuk O.
AU - Balakhtar V.
AU - Ushenko Y.
AU - Gorova O.
AU - Osovska I.
AU - Pinchuk N.
AU - Yakubovska N.
AU - Balakhtar K.
AU - Moskalov M.
PY - 2020
SP - 14
EP - 31
DO - 10.5220/0010920100003364