Significance of The Study

Significance of the Study

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, university students faced the unique challenge of having to perform their academic studies either exclusively online or in a hybrid form of in-person/online learning. Therefore, they required more self-discipline to keep up with their studies and likely spent more time at home than in years prior. Hobbies can have mental health benefits, but the increased time spent at home caused by the pandemic may turn these hobbies into distractions and therefore cause more stress, especially if left unmonitored (Ali et al., 2021; Twenge & Farley, 2020). The types of hobbies within this current study—electronic, physical, logical, and artistic—were unique to this research. Defining these four types helped to clarify the main activities people enjoy and how those activities affected their mental health. This study determines which hobbies were most beneficial to people’s mental health, as well as which ones were more popular during the pandemic. Results provided objective and subjective reasoning for the causation of stress, explained the value of participants’ hobbies, and described how effective hobbies were at coping with mental health issues.