College Student Adjustment from Pandemic Disruption to Post-COVID Recovery: Exploring Gender Differences, Self-Regulation and Attachment

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Abstract

The majority of the existing research into the COVID-19 global pandemic has studied the impact of the pandemic during the peak of the pandemic in 2020-2021, has focused on mental health and social effects such as isolation and has highlighted the negative effects of the pandemic. The present study sought to investigate the post-pandemic benefits of the COVID-19 global pandemic on college students’ interpersonal attachment and the cognitive outcome of self-regulated learning. Results indicated that post-pandemic college students engaged in a significantly higher degree of self-regulation than college students during the pandemic. Further, a significant interaction indicated that male college students’ self-regulation increased from during to post-pandemic and that peer attachment was significantly higher for female college students post-pandemic.

Authors

• Jill D. Salisbury-Glennon, Auburn University

• Yan Dai, Tuskegee University

• Chih-hsuan Wang, Auburn University