Abstract

CABALLERO DOMINGUEZ, Carmen; GONZALEZ GUTIERREZ, Orlando  and  PALACIO SANUDO, Jorge. Relationship between burnout and engagement, with depression, anxiety and academic performance in university students. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.1, pp.59-69. ISSN 0120-5552.

Objective: Analyze the relationship between burnout and engagement, with anxiety, depression and academic performance in university students of health programs. Materials and methods: The design was observational, correlational, multivariate; the sample, random and stratified, was of 802 health programs students from universities in Barranquilla. Instruments: MBISS, UWES-S, STAI and Beck Depression Inventory. Results: The analysis of multiple correspondences between the variables, showed a factor mainly formed by the dimensions of Vigor, Absorption, Dedication and Academic Ineffi-cacy, whose negative end was associated to low engagement and high levels of burnout, academic inefficacy, depression, and trait and State anxiety; the positive end, it was with high engagement, good academic perfomance and low inefficacy, depression and trait and State anxiety. Conclusions: In this study, the academic burnout and engagement were identified related as extreme and opposite poles of the same continuum multidimensional, in which both ends (poles of burnout and engagement) are configured for expected values of the variables studied, but opposite to the contrary pole.

Keywords : academic burnout; engagement; mental health; academic performance; higher education.

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