Emotional exhaustion in students at a Peruvian public university

Abstract

Objective: Describe the emotional exhaustion of students from a Peruvian public university.

Materials and methods: The research focus was quantitative, the design was in the experimental and the transcriptional descriptive type. The study was made up of 201 students of the professional management and business affairs international who applied the Emotional Exhaustion Scale, an instrument with acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Subsequently, the responses were systematized and analyzed using the SPSS^® version 22 program.

Results: The 38.8% of the students presented high levels of emotional exhaustion and it was determined that this variable is significantly associated (p<0.05) with sex, age group, year of studies, socioeconomic status and employment status of the students.

Conclusions: The university students were characterized by presenting high levels of emotional exhaustion and it was the women, who were between 16 and 20 years old, who were in the fifth year of study, whose socioeconomic status was low and who worked, who presented levels of exhaustion slightly higher than the other contrast groups. It is necessary that the psychopedagogy area design and implement preventive and corrective programs that allow students to be detected with high levels of emotional weariness and can receive support from the competent professionals to develop properly and improve their quality of life.