Síndrome de Burnout, ansiedade e desempenho acadêmico: uma análise dos estudantes dos cursos da área de negócios

Abstract

The academic performance is the act of executing academic activities, the ones which are assessed according to the academic’s efficiency, output and level of ability. There are variants which can interfere on the academic student’s output, such as Burnout Syndrome and anxiety. The Burnout syndrome is an emotional tension mood, chronicle stress, physical and mental exhaustion and it is related to the tasks requested and work overload. The anxiety is a normal emotional condition and it is inherent to human being, which in excess may become an illness, and it may also create physical and psychological symptoms. This way, the present paper aims to analyze the relation between Burnout syndrome and anxiety about the academic output on the Accounting and Administration university courses at UTFPR – campus Pato Branco. This research is framed as a survey, classified as descriptive and it presents a quantitative approach. It was used the instruments CBI-S (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory – Student Version) and STAI (State-Trait Anxiety-Inventory) to collect the data, which were obtained through 126 validated answers. The main results from this study suggest that the Burnout level on students from the last year of graduation is higher than the level on students from the previous years; it also suggests that the Burnout level is not different on students who have higher or lower academic output. The results also present the positive relation between anxiety which the individual has daily and on academic evaluation moments. Females have presented better academic performance and higher Burnout syndrome levels, anxiety-state and anxiety-trait. Besides, it is observed the existence of a positive relation between the level of anxiety-state and anxiety-trait correlated to the Burnout Syndrome. This way, these results can be used by the institution as a strategic tool to methodology improvement on teaching-learning according to the student’s reality.