The Relationship of Gender to Students’ Level of Depression

Abstract

During COVID-19 pandemic, Learning and Teaching from Home has been implemented to every student including university students. After two years, these students are asked to return to campus and study face-to-face or hybrid learning. This may be emotionally disturbing to some of them. This is because they feel comfortable and have already adapted the methods of Learning and Teaching from Home. The aim of this study is to identify the students’ level of depression in the transition process of Learning and Teaching from Home to study face-to-face or hybrid learning. Besides, this study also examines whether there is a significant difference in the mean score between gender and the students’ level of depression. The instrument used in this study is the Beck Depression Inventory (Second Edition) which was distributed to 110 Diploma level students at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Pahang Branch, Jengka Campus. The data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 20. The results of the study showed that half of the students experienced a moderate depressive disorder. However, the results found that there was no significant difference in the mean score among male and female students.