Estresse e Síndrome de Burnout em acadêmicos do curso de Ciências Contábeis

Abstract

Several Brazilian accounting students experience a double day, combining work during the day and study at night. For students who carry out paid activities, the study is considered an extension of the workday. This condition can contribute to an excessive burden of obligations, making it difficult to control the good and bad feelings accumulated in daily life, often causing the emergence of stress, which is characterized by a state of tension and intense imbalance in the body. Stress can trigger several diseases such as Burnout syndrome, which is directly related to chronic stress, emotional exhaustion and physical and mental exhaustion. In view of this, the present study aimed to measure stress levels in academics, check for the presence of Burnout syndrome and analyze the possible causes of these, if they were diagnosed during the academic year of 2019, in the students of the Accounting Sciences course at Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR) - Pato Branco Campus. This research is classified as descriptive, has a quantitative approach and fits as a survey. The instruments used to collect data from the 138 valid responses were ISSL (Lipp's Stress Symptom Inventory for Adults) and CBI-S (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory - Student Version). The results obtained in the research show the presence of stress in the students who responded to the research, indicating that students are more stressed in the 1st and 2nd bimonths of the year, presenting less symptoms in the others. The study identifies students with symptoms of stress in the exhaustion phase, also known as Burnout syndrome; these are mainly related to personal life and work / studies, which is clearly a reflection of the double journey experienced by the respondents. The results obtained in Friedman's Anova test indicate that there are differences in stress levels between the two months, and that there are more students at the level of near-exhaustion and exhaustion in the first two months of the year. With regard to the Anova test for Burnout syndrome, the data presented demonstrate that there were no statistically significant differences between the four bimonths analyzed. In view of the results obtained, it is expected to encourage discussions on the subject, since they can serve as a source of information for students, so that they organize their schedules so as not to feel the burden of the double shift, and that the university can carry out interventions with the group of students most affected, enabling proposals to minimize the effects of stress on academic life, avoiding problems with student dropout.