Self-control profiles and Online Learning of Psychology students under and after COVID-19: achievements and novel perspectives

Abstract

The given article examined the topicality, prospects of online learning and professionalization problems of the firstyear University students – future psychologists , during and after the COVID-19 outbreak. It has been summed up that professional online learning nowadays demands a rather high level of skills and competencies formation in implementation of online self-regulated learning, and ,especially, self-control being its dominating component under pandemic and lockdown. The current article deals with technological, psychological, social and emotional difficulties which students-beginners face in the online learning process. The views of foreign and Ukrainian scholars are offered on the students’ online self-control profiling types , and their impact on academic performance, the quality and outcomes of University learning. Major principles and methods of the current study presented, three types of students’ online self-control profiles, as well as established differences between them, are described, anticipated results of their efficacy are presented as a potential of quality self-regulated online learning, further research trajectories are suggested.