Research Article | Open Access
High School Students Responding to Psychic Difficulties When School Closed because of Covid-19: Case Study in the Suburbs Area of Hanoi
Nguyen Van Luong
Pages: 123-129
Abstract
This study applies the Adolescent Coping Scale - ACS by Erica Frydenberg and
Ramon Lewis (1991, 1993) to find out the actual reacting status of high school
students in the suburbs of Hanoi when facing psychological difficulties during the
period of school closures in Covid 19 disease. This paper also uses the Life
Orientation Test - Revised - LOT - R scale of Scheier, Carver and Bridges (1994) to
classify the state of students' optimism when participating in this study. This study
used an online questionnaire survey method using Google form and Zalo form.
Survey was conducted from March 2020 to June 2021. The result implied that the
influence of optimism on students' responding methods, The result implied that
different responding to psychic difficulties accompanied with learning setting can
contribute greatly to students’ learning and life process.
Keywords
School Psychology, Optimism, Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic.