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Academic burnout and professional self-concept of nursing students: A cross-sectional study
Miao Wang1, Hui Guan2, Yuanzhen Li1
1School of Nursing, WanNan Medical College, China.
Background:
Nursing students' academic burnout affects their learning behaviour and academic performance, which ultimately affect whether they will become a qualified nurse. However, little is known about the academic burnout of nursing students, or about its relationship with professional self-concept.
Objectives:
The purpose of this study was (1) to assess the academic burnout of nursing students and (2) to evaluate the impact of professional self-concept on academic burnout among nursing students.
Design:
A cross-sectional survey.
Settings:
The survey was carried out at a 3-year vocational medical college and a 4-year undergraduate medical college in Anhui province, which is located in east-central China.
Participants:
From March to May 2018, a total of 1139 full-time nursing students were investigated by convenient sampling, and 1083 valid questionnaires were recovered in this study.
Methods:
Basic information of students were collected. The Academic Burnout Scale (ABS) and the Nurses' Self-Concept Instrument (NSCI) were used to evaluate students' academic burnout and professional self-concept.
Results:
The average of the overall score of the Academic Burnout Scale was 2.77 ± 0.53, which closed to the median of the scale (median = 3). Whether class leader students or not has significant influence on influence students' academic burnout. Nursing students' professional self-concept had negative effect on their academic burnout.
Conclusions:
Nursing students' academic burnout level was close to the median on the Academic Burnout Scale, and improper behaviour was most severe. Positive professional self-concept can reduce the level of academic burnout. It is meaningful for nursing educators to take measures to decrease nursing students' academic burnout and enhance their professional self-concept.
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