Academic Burnout Among Students at Faculty of Organizational Sciences |
UDC: 159.944.4.072-057.875(497.11)"2011/2012" DOI: 10.7595/management.fon.2012.0019
Burnout is a widely recognized syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization or cynicism and reduced personal accomplishment that occurs in a broad spectrum of occupations, and in students as well. The objective of this research was to investigate the risk of burnout among students and to analyze the relationship between gender and grade point average with three dimensions of burnout. Maslach Burnout Inventory – Student Survey, the most common instrument for measuring burnout, was used for this purpose as it was createdand validated for student population. The research was conducted on a sample of 376 management and ITstudents in Serbia of the second to the final years of studies. The results show that 174 (46.3%) of the total sam-ple of students are at risk of burnout, and 78 (20.7%) are at high risk of burnout. There is no significant correlation between gender and risk of burnout. There are higher percentages of students with low grade point average than students with high grade point average in both risk of burnout (54.4%) and high risk of burnout(26.6%) categories. Keywords: risk of burnout, high risk of burnout, students, grade point average (GPA), Maslach Burnout Inventory – Student Survey (MBI – SS)
Ana Nikodijević, Jelena Anđelković Labrović, Aleksandar Đoković University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences
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