Education Burnout and Engagement in Occupational Therapy Undergraduate Students and Its Associated Factors
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Undergraduate students Burnout Academic Education Engagement
Date
2019-12-20Referencia bibliográfica
Morales-Rodríguez FM, Pérez-Mármol JM and Brown T (2019) Education Burnout and Engagement in Occupational Therapy Undergraduate Students and Its Associated Factors. Front. Psychol. 10:2889.
Résumé
Burnout syndrome has been characterized as a process of chronic
responses to occupational stress in certain employee groups. However, this
phenomenon has also been reported in other participant groups including university
students. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS), composed of the
Exhaustion, Cynicism and Efficacy subscales, was used to evaluate burnout in this
sample group while the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) was used to gather
data related to engagement, a positive psychology construct composed of the three
factors, namely vigor, dedication, and absorption. To date, no studies considered these
factors in relation to occupational therapy students. This begs the question, is there
a relationship between occupational therapy students’ self-reported levels of burnout
and engagement? The study objectives are to (1) ascertain the self-reported levels of
burnout and engagement in a sample of Australian Occupational undergraduate
therapy students, and (2) analyze the sociodemographic, occupational and academic
characteristic associated with these levels. The results indicate that a number of demographic and academic study
variables are significantly associated with burnout syndrome and education engagement
reported by undergraduate occupational therapy students.