COVIDCollege: College Experience Before, During, After Covid
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COVIDCollege

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College Experience Before, During, After Covid

Description

Measures on college students before, during, and after the Covid-19 pandemic

Format

A data frame with 188 observations on the following 28 variables. Values are averages over days in three different period: Before=prior to March 2020, During=March 2020 to July 2021, After = after July 2021.

StillBefore: Time spent still (no movement) in seconds
StepsBefore: Number of steps per day
PhoneUnlockedBefore: Amount of time that a student uses their phone in unlocked state (i.e., total phone usage duration)
SleepBefore: Sleep duration (based on a predictive model) in hours
AnxiousBefore: Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge (0: Not at all; 1: Several days; 2: More than half the days; 3: Nearly every day)
DepressedBefore: Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling down, depressed or hopeless (0: Not at all; 1: Several days; 2: More than half the days; 3: Nearly every day)
SocialBefore: Have you spent most of your time alone or with others today? (1: Almost always alone; 2: Mostly alone, a little time with others; 3: Equal amounts of time alone and with others; 4: Mostly with others, a little time alone; 5: Almost always with others)
FeelGoodBefore: Right now, Overall, I feel good about myself (1: Not at All; 2: A Little Bit; 3: Somewhat; 4: Very Much; 5: Extremely)
StressBefore: Are you feeling stressed now? (1: Not at All; 2: A Little Bit; 3: Somewhat; 4: Very Much; 5: Extremely)
Sex: Self-reported sex of the participant (F, M, or both)
StillDuring: Time spent still (no movement) in seconds
StepsDuring: Number of steps per day
PhoneUnlockedDuring: Amount of time that a student uses their phone in unlocked state (i.e., total phone usage duration)
SleepDuring: Sleep duration (based on a predictive model) in hours
AnxiousDuring: Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge (0: Not at all; 1: Several days; 2: More than half the days; 3: Nearly every day)
DepressedDuring: Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling down, depressed or hopeless (0: Not at all; 1: Several days; 2: More than half the days; 3: Nearly every day)
SocialDuring: Have you spent most of your time alone or with others today? (1: Almost always alone; 2: Mostly alone, a little time with others; 3: Equal amounts of time alone and with others; 4: Mostly with others, a little time alone; 5: Almost always with others)
FeelGoodDuring: Right now, Overall, I feel good about myself (1: Not at All; 2: A Little Bit; 3: Somewhat; 4: Very Much; 5: Extremely)
StressDuring: Are you feeling stressed now? (1: Not at All; 2: A Little Bit; 3: Somewhat; 4: Very Much; 5: Extremely)
StillAfter: Time spent still (no movement) in seconds
StepsAfter: Number of steps per day
PhoneUnlockedAfter: Amount of time that a student uses their phone in unlocked state (i.e., total phone usage duration)
SleepAfter: Sleep duration (based on a predictive model) in hours
AnxiousAfter: Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling nervous, anxious or on edge (0: Not at all; 1: Several days; 2: More than half the days; 3: Nearly every day)
DepressedAfter: Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by the following problems? Feeling down, depressed or hopeless (0: Not at all; 1: Several days; 2: More than half the days; 3: Nearly every day)
SocialAfter: Have you spent most of your time alone or with others today? (1: Almost always alone; 2: Mostly alone, a little time with others; 3: Equal amounts of time alone and with others; 4: Mostly with others, a little time alone; 5: Almost always with others)
FeelGoodAfter: Right now, Overall, I feel good about myself (1: Not at All; 2: A Little Bit; 3: Somewhat; 4: Very Much; 5: Extremely)
StressAfter: Are you feeling stressed now? (1: Not at All; 2: A Little Bit; 3: Somewhat; 4: Very Much; 5: Extremely)

Details

The COVID-19 pandemic changed college life dramatically for many students. Like many colleges, the college where these data were collected suddenly went remote in March 2020, and for the 2020-2021 school year only about half of the students attended in-person, most classes were held online, and there were strict restrictions on social gatherings. Campus operations returned mostly to normal for the 2021-2022 school year. Students in college from 2018-2022 spanned college life before, during, and after the pandemic-induced changes to college life, and this dataset includes various mobile sensing and mental health variables averaged over these three time periods. \

Note: The dataset CollegeExperience includes many of the same variables on many of the same students, but is limited to data from the 2021-2022 academic year.

Source

Subigya Nepal, et. al. "Capturing the College Experience: A Four-Year Mobile Sensing Study of Mental Health, Resilience, and Behavior of College Students during the Pandemic", Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 8, 1, Article 38 (March 2024).

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