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Comuni@cción
Print version ISSN 2219-7168
Abstract
VARGAS PACOSONCO, Kleiber Rosendo and CALLATA GALLEGOS, Zaida Esther. Happiness in times of pandemic and virtual education: a study in university students from the Altiplano. Comuni@cción [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.2, pp.111-119. ISSN 2219-7168. http://dx.doi.org/10.33595/2226-1478.12.2.493.
The article considered the objective of identifying the level of happiness in university students who are going through an atypical situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the same one that had as one of its consequences in the educational field the development of classes from remote and virtual systems, new events in a country like Peru, which after a period of their implementation register peculiar effects that allow their study, the research used the non-experimental method, cross section, descriptive type of quantitative nature in a stratified and proportional sample of 224 university students from the Faculty of Education Sciences of the UNA - Puno, The only study variable was evaluated with the Lima Happiness Scale, which consists of 27 items. Among the most outstanding results we have that 33.9%, perceives happiness at a low level, 38.8% at a medium level and 27.2% at a high level. The study concludes stating that the level of happiness of the students does not respond to desired levels, due to null situations of academic socialization caused by the health emergency.
Keywords : Covid-19; virtual education; students; happiness.