The Impacts of COVID on Mental Wellbeing: An Empirical Study on Students at Tertiary Level of Bangladesh

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to find out the mental status of the final year Business School students who have started exploring the job market, when the overall state of mental wellbeing of the students all over the world has been deteriorating due to the massive impacts of COVID-19 pandemic. To collect data Standard Google form and to measure mental status of the respondents the 14-items Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) were used. A left skewed distribution of WEMWBS score indicated poor mental states of the students in general. The overall females’ score is less than males’ score, which can be attributed to our patriarchal culture. Nonetheless, with the Spearman’s Rank Correlation test, it is seen that many of the variables are strongly correlated with each other. The result of this paper may direct the corporate policy makers to develop some policies for this target audience.