Touch Deprivation and Anxiety among College Students in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Touch deprivation or the shortage of haptic communication is an understudied yet quite a vital area of nonverbal communication. This study aims to understand how “Touch Deprivation and Anxiety Among College Students in The Covid-19 Pandemic”, it tries to assess how touch deprivation affects the anxiety levels in college students in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Snowball convenient data collection method was used to collect a total of 106 samples through e-forms and physical questionnaires. The tools used were Jason Wrench’s Touch Deprivation scale as well as Aaron Beck’s anxiety scale. The main statistical tools used was Correlation analysis to know if there is any kind of relationship between anxiety levels and touch deprivation levels in college students in the midst of a global pandemic. The results indicate a significant positive correlation between the two variables considered.