Burnout: Effects of confinement on university students in Mexico

Abstract

The burnout of students in training is the result of a set of personal and relational factors, as well as the conditions of the institution in which they are in academic training. At a personal and relational level, sleep deprivation, academic overload, imbalance between personal and academic life, avoidant coping mechanisms, vital crises in the academic career, low perception of self-efficacy, insufficient autonomy to face growing professional responsibilities, among others, influence. The objective of this work is to identify the incidence of burnout syndrome in university students during online classes due to confinement by COVID-19. It is a descriptive, cross-sectional and analytical study. The data was collected through a survey and the instrument was the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey Questionnaire applied to a non-random sample of 184 students from various areas of the South Campus of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, located in Mexico. The results show that 17.9% (33) of university students present burnout syndrome and the most affected dimension is emotional exhaustion. In conclusion, they reveal that in all dimensions the female sex is perceived with higher levels, that is, it was detected that women feel more emotionally exhausted.