International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research
Academy (IJMRA)

Abstract:
The year 2020 mark the advent of an unprecedented event in the history of the world. The attack of COVID-19 has shaken the whole human community affecting social, economic, cultural, health, education and other domains of the society. The total world was pushed down to its knees and faced lockdown. Economy stopped, educational institutions closed, social interactions avoided and the world showed the signs of depression. Now it‟s the time to research upon the effect of COVID19 on various aspects of the society at large. Hence, the study aims to find the relationship of screen time with physical wellbeing and psychoemotional wellbeing of secondary school students of Chandigarh during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The investigators constructed screen time scale, physical wellbeing scale and psychoemotional wellbeing scale to collect and analyse the data. The study was done on the sample of 137 secondary level students studying in various schools of Chandigarh. The data was collected online through Google forms. Analysis was done by employing Pearson‟s correlation coefficient on the raw data. The results of the study indicated that (i) there is a significant inverse correlation between screen time and physical wellbeing of secondary level students. The coefficient of correlation value was found to be -0.215 which was significant at 0.05 levels.(ii) There is a significant inverse correlation between screen time and psycho-emotional wellbeing of secondary level students.The coefficient of correlation value was found to be -0.258 which was significant at 0.01 levels. It infers that as the screen time increases physical wellbeing and psycho-emotional wellbeing of students go down. The studies done by various other researchers also support this result. Hence the major educational implication for the future in education is that digital platforms in education should be used very carefully.
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