Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1179
Attitudes and Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on University Students in Bangladesh
Abstract
The sudden and rapid spread of the pandemic worldwide and the consequential precautionary lockdown disrupted and affected the education system globally. Understanding the knowledge pattern, attitude, and practices of young adults towards the pandemic will undoubtedly help attenuate the impacts of the adversity. The purpose of this research is to determine the level of knowledge and attitudes towards the pandemic situation. It also evaluates the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on the business administration students in Bangladesh. The study employed a cross-sectional survey research design, where respondents were chosen randomly. The researcher shared the questionnaire via the social media networks of different universities and adopted SPSS for the exploratory factor analysis and AMOS for the confirmatory and second-order factor analysis. The study confirmed and modeled four significant impacts: general living standard, travel, movement, and post-pandemic impacts. The study has numerous managerial implications for the policymaker to improve the negative impacts and restore balance to the students' neo-normal situation.
Keywords
Attitude, Lockdown, COVID-19, University Students, Post-pandemic effects, Bangladesh.