Factors Affecting Unemployment During COVID-19 Pandemic and Psychological Well-Being Among College Students in Brgy. Commonwealth, Quezon City

Vol.3, No.1C

Abstract

A lot of people lost their jobs due to the pandemic. When President Rodrigo Duterte announced ECQ, GCQ and down, educational institutions decided to do virtual learning, and some businesses closed, so many employees needed to leave forcedly. Travel bans and liquor bans were implemented because of the Pandemic. Even with some of the transportation, so many people can’t find a job, impacting their Psychological well-being. 

Researchers chose this study to help the working students who were also affected by the Pandemic, a working student who lost a job because of “forced leave”, which can impact their psychological well-being. Furthermore, researchers need to verify if there’s an impact of being unemployed on a person’s psychological well-being. Researchers chose 100 respondents from 1st year to 4th-year college students regardless of the institutions and courses as long as they experienced unemployment to investigate the association between Unemployment and psychological well-being. Demographic profile, Questions with choices and the Likert Scale were the content of the survey questionnaire. Researchers will disseminate for safety, especially for the respondents, using Google Forms. After garnering the respondents, the data were interpreted using SPSS, Pearson R, Mean and standard deviation were measured. The overall mean of the respondents was 3.26, interpreted as “sometimes”, and the highest mean on the Likert scale was “I feel like I can find a better opportunity in the future”, which is 4.3 since the Pearson R result was (r=.882 p<0.0045). The study concluded a significant and positive relationship between unemployment and psychological well-being. It also means that if a person is unemployed, it impacts their psychological well-being.