2022 Volume 43 Issue 2 Pages 171-181
We analyzed changes in the major needs of students who visited a university student counseling center for the first time during the period 2017-2019 (pre-COVID-19) and in 2020 (post-COVID-19), using KH coder. Coding rules were created from the co-occurrence network of frequent words, and 19 codes were applied to the data before and after the period to draw co-occurrence networks where the Jaccard coefficient was larger than 0.1.Compared to before the period, the major needs changed from “research” to “emotional distress” after the period. The primary reason for the change seemed to be a change in the application procedure before and after the period, but it is also possible that the college students’ concerns changed qualitatively during the COVID-19. Student counseling should make suggestions for visits and interventions based on these changes in major needs.