INVESTIGATION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACTS OF THE PANDEMIC PROCESS ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

It is possible to show the adolescence period of high school students as one of the fastest developments in the organism starting from prenatal period, which is defined as continuous progress as a result of physiological, social, mental, emotional and sexual here dietary characteristic sand environmental interaction throughout life. Adolescence, which is symbolized as a physiological and psychosocial change of skin and involves the process of gaining respectability and identity building in the society, enabling very opposite emotions to be experienced at the same time, and consequently confronting psychosocial problems such as stress, anxiety, depression and suicidal tendency. It is an extremely fragile period with psychopathological risks.
With its characteristic features that have the potential to change and transform the organism as a whole, adolescence is also considered extremely important in terms of psychological health and has a value that can be perceived as a reference to one's happiness in all life. Therefore, it is almost impossible to predict the tone and impact limits of negative reflections of a psychosocial problem that may occur in this period. In this context, our research aims to investigate the psychosocial effects of the pandemic process, which we can symbolize as an individual, social and global traumatic process, in high school students in terms of various demographic variables. The sample of the research consists of a total of 180 high school students, 102 (56.67%) girl sand 78 (43.33%) boys participating randomly in the survey we organized interactively. The data obtained by using the "Personal Information Form" using the "Pandemic Questionnaire", which we created to determine the psychosocial levels of highschool students in the pandemic process, was applied in the SPSS program by accepting frequency, standard deviation, arithmetic mean, Chi-square test procedures significance level p <0.05 and "Gender, class It has been determined that demographic variables determined as “economic status, education level of mother and father” are important factors in shaping the effect size of the pandemic process and these variables are also caused by statistically significant differences