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Impact of COVID-19 on Adolescent Leisure Activities With Special Reference to SAARC Countries
Abstract
Today humanity is facing a serious threat in the form of a pandemic known as COVID-19, even adolescents the vital section of the youth population is affected by it. Psychologists believed leisure activities as an antecedent of the development of the adolescent. The objective of the study is to examine the change in adolescents' leisure activities, before lockdown (BLD) and after lockdown (ALD) due to this airborne disease.
The study is a cross-cultural study of 255 adolescents in the age group of (15-19) years studying in senior secondary classes in India and its neighboring countries Maldives and Bhutan is the part of the selected sample. The study used the questionnaire Leisure Interest Measure (LIM by Beard and Ragheb, 1980) and a structured key information schedule designed for studying smartphone usage patterns (SPUP) by teens. SPSS-23 and other statistical packages are used for analyzing the data to study the change in leisure activities. The results of the study are quite interesting and will be helpful in policy formulation related to adolescents' leisure activities. Serious research work should be conducted in this area, as it is a sensitive issue and requires more concentration after all adolescent is a valuable asset for any nation.
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... The study claimed that Indian adolescents were at greater risk side than Bhutanese, either digitally or from a health point of view. Another study by Sharma and Jain (2021), Impact of COVID-19 on adolescent leisure activities of SAARC countries. The study highlighted the leisure activities of adolescents before and during lockdown and results showed that there was a statistically significant difference in leisure activities during unlocking and lockdown. ...
The educational and social life of adolescents has been transformed in the last one and a half years, due to the global pandemic COVID-19. In order, to control, the expansion of this virus during the second wave (Feb.-August 2021), as it is a severe acute respiratory syndrome with modified features, all the educational institutions had been closed and even board examinations of central as well as state boards were cancelled. Students were forced to stay at home and classes were organised through online mode. Now adolescents, spend most of their time with their smartphones for attending their online classes as well as during their leisure time for socialising with their peers. The specific objective of the study is to examine the leisure time activities of adolescents during the second wave. The study is a cross-cultural study of 460 adolescents in the age group of (16-18) years studying in senior secondary class (Grade XII th) in South Asian countries; India, Maldives, and Bhutan. The study has used tools such as Leisure Interest Measure (LIM by Ragheb and Beard, 1992) and a structured key information schedule designed for studying smartphone usage patterns (SPUP) for collecting information. AMOS 23, NVivo 12 and other statistical packages have been used for analysing the data, to test the model designed for studying leisure time activities and their effects. The results of the study focus on digital leisure and the health problems associated with it. The findings of the study will be helpful in policy formulation related to adolescents' technology usage and the effective use of their leisure time The study concluded that excess use of technology either for educational or any other purpose has a bad impact on the psycho-physiological health of adolescents and it requires serious attention.
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