A Risk Profile of Sociodemographic Factors in the Onset of Academic Burnout Syndrome in a Sample of University Students

Raimundo Aguayo, Gustavo R. Cañadas, Latifa Assbaa-Kaddouri, Guillermo A. Cañadas- De la Fuente, Lucía Ramírez-Baena and Elena Ortega-Campos
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Raimundo Aguayo: Campus Universitario de Cartuja, Faculty of Psychology, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Gustavo R. Cañadas: Campus Universitario de la Cartuja, Department of Didactic of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Latifa Assbaa-Kaddouri: Social Psychology Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Granada, Santander, 1, 52005 Melilla, Spain
Guillermo A. Cañadas- De la Fuente: Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración, 60, 18016 Granada, Spain
Lucía Ramírez-Baena: Campus Universitario de Cartuja, Brain, Mind and Behaviour Research Center (CIMCYC), University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Elena Ortega-Campos: Faculty of Psychology, University of Almería, Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120 Almería, Spain

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 5, 1-10

Abstract: Studying for a university degree can be very demanding, as students must cope with a variety of academic, social and personal challenges. If these demands persist, and if there are insufficient resources with which to address them, they will eventually provoke stress. When stress is present for long periods of time, it can lead to academic burnout syndrome, the signs of which are emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and inadequate personal accomplishment. This paper considers certain sociodemographic factors (age, sex, children, marital status, employment status, degree subject, faculty, academic year) in the identification of a risk profile of developing burnout syndrome. This study is cross-sectional, associative and ex post facto. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey was administered to 445 students in the University of Granada. According to the risk profile obtained, first-year male students in Primary Education and Social Education courses are at risk of developing burnout syndrome.

Keywords: academic burnout syndrome; university students; prevalence; sociodemographic factors; stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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