Burnout académico en estudiantes de Psicología de la Universidad de Cuenca en el periodo julio 2023 a febrero 2024

Abstract

Academic burnout syndrome is defined as a state of fatigue or frustration that results from the academic demands that university students have. In this research, the general objective was to identify the presence of Academic Burnout Syndrome in university students, providing a detailed understanding of the dimensions of Burnout based on sociodemographic and academic variables. The study had a quantitative approach, descriptive scope and cross section, addressing Academic Burnout Syndrome in 88 participating students from the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Cuenca. The Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey (MBI-SS) was used, adapted to Spanish and the academic context. The results indicate that students did present Academic Burnout Syndrome in 9.01% of the students, with specific patterns according to age, presence of children, gender, hours of class and study, as well as the number of subjects taken. It is concluded that academic burnout syndrome does exist within the environment and in the participants studied.