COPING MECHANISMS OF WPU COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FACULTY MEMBERS DURING THE ENHANCED COMMUNITY QUARANTINE

Abstract

During crisis, every person adapts to an unpredictable environment based on conscious and unconscious choices which will enhance personal control over behavior or gives comfort. In this times of crisis, particularly the pandemic of the corona virus 19 (COVID-19), all professionals are grounded to their homes, except for front liners such as healthcare professionals. Educators from basic to higher education are not exempted. In fact, faculty members of higher education institutions are also stressed out from the effects of the pandemic (Pogere et al., 2019).