Síndrome de Burnout en los estudiantes de nivel 6 de inglés del centro de idiomas en una universidad privada de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Burnout Syndrome is a manifestation of chronic stress experienced by people who do not have an adequate coping strategy, especially students. The main objective of this research was to determine the burnout syndrome in students who study the sixth level of English in the language center of a private university in Guayaquil. The population is constituted by 180 students of different careers of the private university that study in the Language Center of module six, it excludes 9 students who left the module. The instrument was a questionnaire divided into three parts; in the first, polytomic questions were asked; in the second, the SISCO Inventory of Academic Stress was applied; in the third, the One-Dimensional Student Burnout Scale was applied. The research was of a quantitative, descriptive, transversal type. Results 56% of students exceed 25 years, 58% women, 71% have personal commitments, 91% have family responsibilities, 77% have workloads, 91% show concern about their academic burdens, 81% respond to stressful stimuli , 76% manifest physical, psychological and behavioral reactions to stressors 86.2% have made different coping strategies against stressors, however 83.7% suffer from moderate and deep burnout. It is concluded that the multiple stressors of the academic and personal environment of the student which generate physical, psychological and behavioral symptoms generating a mental exhaustion that is reflected in the performance of their academic performance.