Socio-emotional Well-being in the Context of Pandemic and Virtuality: an Approach to Parents, Teachers, and Students of Primary Education in Chile

Abstract

The objective of the research was to know the socio-emotional well-being of students, teachers, and parents of some public schools in the province of Curicó-Chile, in the context of the pandemic and virtuality. The participants were 49 people who belong to public primary schools in the Province of Curicó, Chile. The research design was cross-sectional descriptive with a mixed approach, using quantitative techniques: Natural Semantic Networks (NSR), and qualitative: semi-structured interviews and identity drawing. Descriptive statistics and microanalysis elements of the Grounded Theory were used in the data analysis. The findings evidenced a discrepancy in the emotions of the teaching staff, new socio-emotional experiences and domestic routines on the part of the parents, and formative experiences of the student body with various obstacles and diverse emotions. Of the latter, the most recurrent were frustration, sadness, and fear. On the other hand, there is a wide appreciation of the community of the face-to-face socio-educational context over the virtual one. It is recommended to promote social-emotional well-being, for it represents an element in the formation of the human being, through strategies such as emotion recognition drawings in teachers, students, and parents.