Studentų socialinio gyvenimo ir Erasmus mobilumo pokyčiai Covid-19 pandemijos metu

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed people’s lives in the world, causing constraints and deviations from everyday habits. Restrictions and social isolation as a means of stopping the spread of the disease have had social, cognitive, and psychosomatic consequences, especially in the student world. This is not only because the learning process has been replaced by distance learning but also because the social activities and social life of students have changed fundamentally. The study aims to examine the changes in students’ social life and Erasmus’s mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. 300 respondents took part in the survey, of which: 47 % were health sciences, 44 % social sciences, 9 % students of technological sciences. Mostly professional degree and academic degree students. Conclusions. An analysis of changes in students ’social lives in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that students most often solve their problems in a home environment. Comparing the frequency of students’ habits before and during the pandemic, it turned out that during the pandemic: they more often wash their hands, wear masks outside, avoid public transport, and avoid large gatherings. Assessing Erasmus’s mobility activities, it has been observed that the pandemic has significantly changed these student life activities; almost all students have not participated in Erasmus+ mobility activities.