ABSTRACT
This article explores the COVID-19 psychological and social effects and how, as students, we can minimize the side effects of the COVID-19 on the students for overcoming them from next global crisis. The COVID-19 has also highlighted the vulnerability across students' education. Thus, we need to understand, monitor, and evaluate these affects to ensure our immediate and long-term responses account of these psychological and social changes and provide effective mechanism to address the impacts of the COVID-19 on Students. To address the research questions, quantitative data were collected from 281 students who are those study from 4th grade to 8th grade at schools in Istanbul. Mainly due to the study the quantitative data related to the demographic variables and psychological and social effects of the COVID-19 on students have been presented in percentages and frequency. In the determination of process of the study, the data were collected via a survey. The results revealed that the respondents have been positively affected psychological and social side effects of the COVID-19. Most of the respondents (%52) agreed for positive effects of the COVID-19 that caused more family engagement, (%48.4) more free time, (%48.4) reading more books, and (%48) more time to study. However, the respondents (%6.4) indicated that they have not been affected any psychological and social sides effects of the COVID-19. Most of the respondents (%69.4) agreed for negative effects of the COVID-19 that caused isolation and loneliness through a lack of friend's relationship, (%68) feeling bored, (%52.3) feeling stress and anger, (%45.2) feeling anxiety due to people who do not implement restrictions.