The Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration of Lecturers and Staffs’ Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Covid-19

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected several aspects in life globally such as studying, working, recreation and so forth. However, people all over the world still need to keep life going on by one way or another. Especially education should be maintained under certain adverse circumstances. Teachers and institutional staffs are working multiple times harder not only to give lessons to students but acomplish various tasks besides work simutaneously. This may lead to stress and other mental health problems as a result. The purpose of this survey was to explore the reality of the basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration of them. Using the conceptual framework of quantitative research, a survey was conducted in Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities among lecturers and staffs with 147 participants on October 2021. Internal coefficient and exploratory factor analysis were performed to examine reliabilty and validity of the measure, decriptive analysis was used to determine means of basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration among lecturers and staff; t-test and ANOVA were calculated to examine the differences in the need satisfaction and frustration among sociodemographic variables. The results showed that the basic need satisfaction and frustration scale was valid and a six-factor solution fitted the data in Vietnamese context. Basic psychological needs satisfaction (M = 3.71, SD = 0.52) is higher than basic psychological needs frustration (M = 2.63, SD = 0.65) of participants during COVID-19 pandemic. The sub-scale of each need satisfaction and need frustration varied with the sociodemographic charateristics. The implications of the results and limitations are also discussed.