How COVID-19 Pandemic Is Accelerating the Transformation of Higher Education Institutes: A Health Belief Model View

Ali Nasser Al-Tahitah; Mohammed A. Al-Sharafi; Mohammed Abdulrab

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-67716-9_21

How COVID-19 Pandemic Is Accelerating the Transformation of Higher Education Institutes: A Health Belief Model View

Ali Nasser Al-Tahitah
, Mohammed A. Al-Sharafi^*
, Mohammed Abdulrab

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

At the beginning of the year 2020, massive fast spread Coronavirus or (COVID-19) pandemic caused a serious impact on the education system worldwide. This chapter aims to explore the students’ attitude to use social media as a learning tool during COVID-19 pandemic based on the view of the Health Belief Model (HBM). A total of 504 students in Malaysian universities were involved in this study. The partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-PM) has been employed to analyse the data collected in this study. The results indicated that perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived barriers, perceived (health) motivation, perceived benefits and self-efficacy were significant in predicting the students’ attitude to use social media as a learning tool during COVID-19 pandemic. The results of this study has been contributed to the existing literature by validating HBM in the Malaysian context and provide theoretical contributions and practical implications to the theory, and practice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	333-347
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67716-9_21
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
Volume	348
ISSN (Print)	2198-4182
ISSN (Electronic)	2198-4190

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

COVID-19 pandemic
Health belief model
Higher education institutes
Social media

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science (miscellaneous)
Control and Systems Engineering
Automotive Engineering
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Control and Optimization
Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)

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Al-Tahitah, A. N., Al-Sharafi, M. A., & Abdulrab, M. (2021). How COVID-19 Pandemic Is Accelerating the Transformation of Higher Education Institutes: A Health Belief Model View. In Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (pp. 333-347). (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; Vol. 348). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67716-9_21

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How COVID-19 Pandemic Is Accelerating the Transformation of Higher Education Institutes: A Health Belief Model View. / Al-Tahitah, Ali Nasser; Al-Sharafi, Mohammed A.; Abdulrab, Mohammed.
Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. p. 333-347 (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; Vol. 348).

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How COVID-19 Pandemic Is Accelerating the Transformation of Higher Education Institutes: A Health Belief Model View

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