Abstract:

COVID-19 period has involved and adaptation of university students to new methodologies with constantly changing content and learning tools. The aim of this research is to analyse the attitude of undergraduate students of business about adapting to change in coronavirus period.

Therefore, this paper examined the self-perception of adaptation to change in order to get the objetives planified previously. Four hundred and nine students in five graduate programs in business with five courses each at a higher education institution of Valencia in 2020 were interviewed for their insights on adaptation to change and they were asked if these changes made them lose control over their previously raised goals. The scale used was divided into four ranks, wich were associated by students’ attitudes and perceptions of changes.

The finding indicated that students perceive that the changes affecting them are mostly taken over with broad control involving the achievement of the previously set objectives. It should be noted that there is an important part of them that perceive that the changes are taken unchanged by achieving the objectives that ahve been proposed. Most first-year students perceive that the ahve a high ability to adapt to changes and control of them. When we talk about absolute control of the changes, it is the first and ourth year students who have his perception when it comes to assuming the aforementioned changes.

As a final conclusion, most students perceive that they have a high ability to control changes and this is an achievement of the objectives set out. As a future line of research, a survey is being conducted where the perception of this competition is analyzed by other classmates of the student, hoping to compare both results to give consistency or challenge the study raised in this work.

Keywords:

COVID-19, attitude, change, self-perception, adaptation.