Loneliness in a group. Reflections on isolation, lack of relationships and the feeling of loneliness during Covid-19 pandemic on the example of research conducted at Police Academy in Szczytno
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Wyższa Szkoła Policji w Szczytnie
Submission date: 2023-06-23
Final revision date: 2023-09-27
Acceptance date: 2023-09-29
Publication date: 2023-10-31
JoMS 2023;52(3):82-100
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Objectives:
The main aim of the research in the area of management questions was to learn the respondents’ opinions on the functioning of the academy during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of developed and implemented solutions
Material and methods:
In the study there was used the anonymous diagnostic survey method (in two language versions: Polish and English). The access to the questionnaire was available online via a link. In the article, the author presents part of the results of research conducted in 2020/2022, both among police officers and employees of Police Academy in Szczytno (n=181 people), as part of the implementation of a research task, financed by the Ministry of the Interior and Administration
Results:
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world. It caused a kind of stoppage, forced people to close themselves in their homes. Teaching moved to the virtual world. It affected the type and amount of interpersonal relationships. Most direct contacts had to be reduced to a minimum or ceased to exist altogether. Particularly severe and noticeable during Covid-19 pandemic was the functioning of a university such as the Police Academy in Szczytno (WSPol). The article refers in particular to the functioning of WSPol during the Covid-19 pandemic, the solutions adopted by it and the possible consequences felt by students and employees
Conclusions:
Particular attention was paid to questions regarding the pace of changes introduced at the Academy and their assessment through the prism of the functioning of the Academy, that is solutions which, according to the respondents, should remain at the academy despite the end of the pandemic, a sense of agency and impact on the processes introduced at the Academy, and a catalogue of specific solutions used and implemented in individual organizational units of the respondents