Female Student’s Socio-Economic, Socio-Affective and Academic Experience During Covid-19 Pandemic

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue V, May 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186

Female Student’s Socio-Economic, Socio-Affective and Academic Experience During Covid-19 Pandemic

Lycel Lagnason-Pacheco, Phd
Central Philippines State University

Abstract: This is a descriptive study using a quantitative approach which main objective aimed to determine the female students’ socio-economic, socio-affective and academic experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this determined the demographic profile of respondents as to course, year level, and family monthly income, the extent of female students’ life experience as a whole and in term of domestic, affective, academic, and social experience and the significant difference on female students’ life experience grouped according to course, year level, and family monthly income profile. Results revealed that in terms of demographic profile, the highest percentage as to the courses is the Teacher Education and the lowest is the BS Statistics. 30% is third year and 4.5% are fourth year. Moreover, 221 of them are having below Php 15,000 monthly income. In general, the extent of female students’ life experience got frequently experiences in terms of domestic, academic, affective, and social experience. In conclusion, the researcher identified no significant difference on female students’ life experience when grouped according to profile.

Keywords: social science, quantitative approach, female students, socio-economic, socio-affective, academic, COVID-19 pandemic

I. INTRODUCTION

Education is essential for everyone. It has been long recognized as an important element in the development of a person’s natural growth and success. Each year, thousands of students go to Universities and Colleges to pursue higher education. However, the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic which started in China in December 2019 happened, and it has taken the world by storm affecting many lives including students whose studies are immediately affected by nationwide lockdowns. They are also suddenly denied to readily accessible education due to government restrictions in the hope to control and even contain the spread of the said virus. COVID-19 is defined as illness caused by a novel coronavirus now called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; formerly called 2019nCoV), which was first identified amid an outbreak of respiratory illness cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China (Cennimo, David J., 2021).
In the hope to highlight and provide better understanding on the challenges that females experience during the pandemic, this study’s main objective is to gather the data on female students’ self-reported experiences in Central Philippines State University during the pandemic to help assist the university in forming a theoretical basis in

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