| dc.description.abstract | Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organization in early 2020, different research has been designed to understand how psychosocial well-being and academic performance can be impacted by the lockdown coping strategies during the pandemic. This study focused on the coping strategies developed by the government of the republic of Uganda in response effort to curbing the spread of the corona virus covid-19. This study aimed to identify if there was a relation between the COVID-19 lockdown coping strategies adopted by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic and the psychosocial well-being of the students as well as its influence on their academic performance. The sample consisted of 132 third-year students of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (BIOP) between 18 and 35 years old (18-25 years (80.3%), 26-35 years (19.7%) whom a structured questionnaire containing; biodata, a COVID-19 lockdown coping strategies scale, a psychosocial well-being scale, and an academic performance scale. The data-analysis had descriptive and inferential statistics which were analyzed using analysis Pearson correlation coefficient (r) The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 was used in the research. The findings showed that there was no relationship between the COVID-19 lockdown coping strategies and psychosocial well-being among the students of Makerere University, (r=.095, p=.281). They however showed that there is a significant relationship between the COVID-19 lockdown coping strategies and academic performance among university students (r=.167, p=.056). And also, results showed that there was a significant relationship between psychosocial well-being and academic performance among university students. (r=.181*, p=.037) | en_US |
