THE ANXIETY OF ONLINE LEARNING DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the anxiety of online learning during the COVID  19pandemic of Physical Education students in Srinakharinwirot University.The sample group, determined based on Krejcie and Morgan’s Table and simple random sampling proportional to the number of students in each year class, comprised 181 Physical Education students in years  1-4. The research instrument was an anxiety questionnaire (CVI and Objective = 1.00 and Cronbach reliability = 0.97) whose validity was approved by three experts. The data were analyzed by means of percentage, mean and standard deviation.

The research found that 59.70% of the students were male and 40.30% were female.  In addition, 25.20% of the students were first-year students, 35.20% were second-year students, 17.60% were third-year students, and 22% were fourth - year students. For the course characteristics, 10.7% were theory courses, 1.20% were practice courses, and 88.10% were courses that combined both theory and practice. The most frequently used channel for online lessons was Google Classroom, followed by Zoom Meeting, Line, Meet, Hangout, Facebook, YouTube and others, respectively. The mean of the overall anxiety of the Physical Education students was at a high level of 4.03 (S.D. = 1.07). The top three areas of anxiety of Physical Education students featured the course contents at the highest level of 4.40 (S.D. = 0.89), assignments/homework at 4.12 (1.05), and the ability of learning at a high level of 4.10 (S.D. = 1.05), respectively. The second-year students had the highest level of anxiety at 4.35 (S.D. = 0.73).