The University Management in the COVID-19: Focusing on the Human Relationships and the Loneliness in University Life

Abstract

The COVID-19 had a major impact on university life, mainly due to remote teaching. In this study, we considered that the sense of loneliness felt under such circumstances had a negative impact on university life, and after creating a hypothetical model regarding loneliness and university life, we conducted a survey among university students. The analysis of the hypothesized model using the analysis of covariance structure revealed that loneliness indirectly affected the level of satisfaction with university life. Next, we analyzed the results separately for each grade level, and confirmed that loneliness had a negative impact on college life satisfaction only for first-year students. It was also confirmed that loneliness had a negative impact on satisfaction with university life in the group whose satisfaction with university friendships was lower than satisfaction with friendships outside the university.