The Specifics of Well-Being, Activity and Mood as Components of the Emotional Health of Students

Abstract

Background. The professional training of students has dramatically changed over the COVID-19 pandemic with new conditions of education: transition to online learning, partial isolation, and loss of some means of communication. In addition, there are challenges in recovering mental, psychological, physical, and physiological health of students in the post-COVID period. The result is that the emotions and volition of young students have significantly transformed and influenced well-being, activity, and mood as components of students’ emotional health. Purpose. To define the specifics of well-being, activity, and mood as components of the emotional health of young students in the COVID and post-COVID periods. Methods and materials. 645 major students from Moscow universities were included on a voluntary basis in a sample. The authors applied five original methods for identifying the interrelation between personal problems’ impact on health status, health status itself, health self-assessment, well-being, emotional health, and body intoxication. Results. In the COVID-19 period, there were observed a high correlation between the average level of activity and the average level of health status and body intoxication, a moderate correlation between the average level of activity and the below-average level of personal problems’ impact on health status, health self-assessment, well-being, mood and emotional health, a moderate correlation between the average level of health status and the below-average level of health self-assessment, mood and emotional health, and a moderate correlation between the average level of body intoxication and the below-average level of well-being, mood and emotional health. In the post-COVID period, there were observed a high correlation between the average level of well-being, activity and mood and the average level of personal problems’ impact on health status, health status, health self-assessment, emotional health and body intoxication.