The Stress Level Due to the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic amongst Secondary School Students during Online Teaching and Learning in Gombak District: Causes and Solutions

Abstract

The spread of COVID-19 that happened gave some impacts to many parties, especially amongst students, who had to alternate their face-to-face teaching and learning to online learning. The objectives of the study are to identifying the stress level amongst students who attended online learning, identifying the causes of stress amongst students who attended online teaching and learning and elucidating suitable approaches to overcome stress problems amongst students who attended online teaching and learning. This quantitative survey gathered data based on the distributed questionnaire forms. The population of this study consisted of students from level one, two and four in every secondary school under Gombak DEO, with the total of 17 secondary schools. The average number of students were within 24 to 25 for every school whom were randomly selected with the total number of 410 population of students. The instrument used in this study is questionnaire. In general, the questionnaire consisted of several parts such as: A) Sample background information, B) Level of Stress and Sources of Stress, and C) Solutions to Deal with Stress. From a comparative point of view, the results for Part B showed that the level of academic stress recorded a high average mean of 3.39. However, things are different for the level of stress in terms of Personal which recorded a moderate average mean amount of 3.03. As for Section C, the causes of stress in terms of Academics and the causes of stress in terms of Personal have recorded a low average mean of 2.19 and 1.98. a different thing was recorded for Part D when solving the Stress problem recorded a high average mean of 4.14. The results of the study showed that Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on students who attended online teaching and learning sessions.