Dynamics of the Attitude of Students of the Faculty of Legal Psychology to Study in Different Modes of Study Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

<p style="text-align: justify;">The article examines the change in the attitude of students of the Faculty of Legal Psychology to study during the period of easing sanitary restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of a longitudinal study conducted from December 2021 to May 2022 are presented. The sample consisted of 90 students of different courses studying in the specialty “Pedagogy and psychology of deviant behavior”. The attitude to study, determined using the questionnaire “My studies at the university” by O.A. Voronina, was compared in distance and mixed (full-time-distance) modes of study. According to the sample as a whole, a change in the transition from distance learning to a mixed learning format was revealed in both general satisfaction with learning and its individual aspects — emotional and evaluative attitude, satisfaction with the specialty, the ratio of internal and external motivation of learning. The differences in the dynamics of the attitude of students of different courses to study are recorded and discussed. Additionally, students’ opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of studying in different modes were clarified. It is proposed in case of a change in the training regime to monitor the attitude of students to study and, if necessary, to carry out remedial work with student groups or individual students.</p>