A Foreign View on the Use of the "burnout" Construct in Consultative Work With Those Who Are Learning
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Introduction. In spite of the rapid development of researches in this field, there are still problems both with the conceptualization of the burnout concept itself and with the uniformity of understanding its structure, unity of measurement means and comparability, in this connection, of the results of different researches. The importance of further studies of a burnout seems to be undoubted. This is proved both by the empirical facts presented above, and by the wide public attention given to this phenomenon. The seriousness of the problem is also recognized by the World Health Organization that included a burnout in ICD-10 and in ICD-11 (QD85 Burnout) as a separate phenomenon that influences health and quality of life. Over the last 20 years in foreign psychology a direction of research has appeared and is actively developing, focused on the assessment of usefulness and applicability of the "burnout" construct for describing the life of schoolchildren and students as well as their psychological well-being. Purpose – an analytical review of research on the impact of burnout and academic stress on the quality of life, psychological well-being, and academic performance of students. Methods. Analysis, synthesis, comparison, induction and deduction. Originality. The article is devoted to the review of foreign studies of the phenomenon of burnout of students. The author shows a three-component structure for academic burnout, which corresponds to the traditional one: exhaustion, cynicism, and low perceived effectiveness. The article presents studies that investigate the influence of social (quality of relationships with peers, teachers, and close relatives) and individual (emotional and personality profiles, empathic abilities, optimism, personal resources) factors on the development of burnout symptoms in cross-sectional and longitudinal research formats. The data of studies on the impact of burnout and academic stress on the quality of life, psychological well-being and academic performance of students are analyzed. Approaches to preventing the development of burnout based on the provisions of positive psychology and motivation psychology are considered. Conclusion. In the presented review an attempt is made to describe the available results in the research of a burnout phenomenon in the conditions of schoolchildren, college and university students. The tasks of further research of burnout in pupils and students can include testing of the results received on the international samples in the conditions of educational system of Ukraine, searching of the models of burnout that would most adequately describe the available data, as well as research of the factors and ways of burnout prevention in educational activity.
Author: Козак, О.
Institution: Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University
Language: English
Topic: Stress and Burnout Research
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7009925777