Examining Teachers College Student Perceptions of Their Personal Wellness During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The purpose of this paper is to examine how college students perceived their personal wellness and identified their sources of support while enrolled as a college student in a teacher’s college during the COVID-19 pandemic. College education students were asked to provide responses for five different wellness measures. Quantitative data analysis was used to examine overall wellness, well-being, self-efficacy, food insecurity, and sources of support. Females had significantly lower wellness scores than males. Undergraduates had noticeably lower wellness scores than graduate students, and undergraduates had significantly higher Food Insecurity scores than graduate students did. Professors and administrators were scored significantly above average as a source of support for college students, whereas Campus Medical Service and Campus Mental Health scored as below average as a source of support. Utilizing wellness data about a variety of factors can help college mental health professionals implement specific sources of support to address mental health for college students.