Perceived impact on motivation in distance university studies during the pandemic Covid-19

Pandemin Covid-19 hade en stor påverkan på mänskligheten under år 2020, förutom social distansering på allmänna platser fick dessutomarbete och studier ändras till distans för att undvika smittspridning i samhället. Forskningsfrågan var om denna ofrivilligt distansförlagdautbildning vid universiteten påverkade studenternas upplevdamotivation till studierna samt om det fanns ett samband mellanmotivationen och stresshantering. Vid en kvantitativ studie påstudenter vid Örebro Universitet som besvarades via frågeformulärutifrån studenternas egen uppskattning undersöktes upplevdmotivation och stresshantering. Resultaten visade att det verkade finnas en koppling mellan studenternas inre motivation ochmaladaptiv copingstrategi under de ofrivilligt distansförlagdastudierna 2020, samt att studenter upplevde en lägre nivå påmotivation i förhållande till året innan. Slutsatsen blev följaktligen attdet fanns ett samband mellan stresshantering och inre motivation hosstudenter samt att distansstudierna i samband med pandemin Covid-19 har bidragit till sänkt studiemotivation. Möjliga förklaringar till skillnaderna i resultaten jämfört med tidigare studierdiskuteras.Pandemic Covid-19 had a major impact on humanity in 2020, inaddition to social distancing in public places, work and studies had tobe changed to distance in order to avoid the spread of infection insociety. The research question was whether this involuntary distancelearning at the universities affected the students' perceived motivationfor their studies and whether there was a connection between themotivation and stress management. In a quantitative study of studentsat Örebro University by way of questionnaires that were answeredbased on the students' own assessment, perceived motivation andstress management were examined. Results showed that there seemedto be a link between students' inner motivation and maladaptivecoping strategy during the involuntary distance studies in 2020, andthat students experienced lower levels of motivation relative to theyear before. The conclusion was therefore that there was a connectionbetween stress management and internal motivation in students andthat the distance studies in connection with the Covid-19 pandemichave contributed to reduced study motivation. Possible explanationsfor the differences in the results compared to previous studies are discussed