Burnout Syndrome in University Students. Comparative Analysis Among Students Grouped by Educational Program Within the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Ciudad Constitución

Abstract

In this research, the presence and level of burnout syndrome was identified among students enrolled in different educational programs in a higher educational institution in Mexico. For this, a questionnaire based on the School-Burnout Inventory (SBI) —adapted to Spanish— was applied to 871 university students enrolled in the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Ciudad Constitución, who were grouped by their career. The answers were analyzed and the media obtained by educational program were calculated. The results were the following: Architecture = 30.7394; Industrial Engineering = 30.3482; Food Industry Engineering = 29.992; Bachelor of Administration = 27.7575; Electromechanical Engineering = 27.5561; Computer Systems Engineering = 27.3284; Gastronomy = 27.1443, and Business Management Engineering = 25.8775. It was possible to identify that the highest scores were obtained in programs related to the study of engineering sciences, although they do not fully correspond to engineering, since in the Bachelor of Administration the average score obtained is above some engineering. In addition, the level of burnout syndrome among the students enrolled in the Architecture program was analyzed to identify if the average score increases according to the semester of study, that is, if the growth increases uniformly from the first to the seventh semester. The results of this analysis indicate that there is a non-uniform growth, therefore, it cannot be recognized that student burnout syndrome increases according to the semester of study.