Academic Burnout and Self-Efficacy of Nursing Students in the Postpandemic Context

Abstract

Introduction: Academic burnout is considered a psychological condition characterized by low motivation and a greater sense of failure, a situation that would affect the individual wellfare of anybody who suffers from it.

Objective: To describe the relationship between academic burnout and self-efficacy in students from the professional Nursing major at a Peruvian public university in the postpandemic context.

Methods: A quantitative-approach, nonexperimental-design, descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional research was carried out. The population consisted of 345 students, while the sample consisted of 149 students, to whom the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey questionnaire and the General Self-Efficacy Scale were applied, as instruments with adequate levels of validity, based on content and reliability. The data were processed using SPSS version 25 software. Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis and Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient was used to describe the relationship between the variables.

Results: The level of academic burnout characterizing the students was found to be moderate, while the reported level of self-efficacy was medium. Also, the Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient between the two variables was determined to be-0.507, and the p-value was less than the significance level (p < 0.05).

Conclusions: Academic burnout is inversely and significantly related to self-efficacy of students from the professional Nursing major in the postpandemic context.