Abstract

CABALLERO D, Carmen Cecilia; HEDERICH G, Christian  and  GARCIA P, Arlington. Relationship between burnout and academic engagement with sociodemographic variables and academic. Psicol. caribe [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.2, pp.254-267. ISSN 0123-417X.

This study aims to clarify the interdependence between Academic Burnout (ab) and Academic Engagement (ae) in undergraduate students, and to describe this relationship based on their associations with demographic and academic variables (Academic Achievement - aa). A multivariate, correlational observational design was used, with a stratified random sample of 802 students from the programs of medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and psychology of private universities of Barranquilla, Colombia. The instruments used were the mbi-ss, the uwess and a questionnaire about academic and socioeconomic variables. The analysis of the relationship between ab and ae, suggests considering each of these syndromes as extremes of the same phenomenic continuum or factor, composed by the dimensions of Vigor, Dedication, Academic Inefficacy and Cynicism , with opposite values at the extremes or poles of the factor. Demographic and academic variables were associated with the poles of the ab and the ae of the acknowledged factor, where the ab was a good predictor of poor aa, and the ae a good predictor of good aa.

Keywords : Academic burnout; academic engagement; university students; undergraduate students; academic achievement; sociodemographic characteristics.

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