TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of academic burnout in college students. Application of SEM with PLS approach
AU - Grilo, Luís M.
AU - Mubayi, Anuj
AU - Dinkel, Katelyn
AU - Amdouni, Bechir
AU - Ren, Joy
AU - Bhakta, Mohini
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) through the project UID/MAT/00297/2019 (Centro de Matemática e Aplicações).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Author(s).
PY - 2019/12/10
Y1 - 2019/12/10
N2 - In several academic activities students experience a considerable stress in their daily life. Stressors may affect the mental and physical health of college students, leading some of them to the burnout syndrome. To evaluate this syndrome in students at Arizona State University (ASU), USA, a survey was conducted using a questionnaire previously developed, with ordinal variables. A theoretical Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was proposed and the estimated model was obtained applying the Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach. Based on the PLS-SEM path coefficients, the latent construct behavioural stress has a direct effect on distress and insecurity, and an indirect effect on both quantitative demands and academic burnout. Both mediator constructs quantitative demands and distress have a direct effect on the academic burnout in students. A multi-group analysis was also conducted to compare the path coefficients of the estimated model by gender, but the differences are not statistically significant. These results allow a better understanding of burnout syndrome in ASU college students, which can severely limit their psychosocial well-being and performance.
AB - In several academic activities students experience a considerable stress in their daily life. Stressors may affect the mental and physical health of college students, leading some of them to the burnout syndrome. To evaluate this syndrome in students at Arizona State University (ASU), USA, a survey was conducted using a questionnaire previously developed, with ordinal variables. A theoretical Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was proposed and the estimated model was obtained applying the Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach. Based on the PLS-SEM path coefficients, the latent construct behavioural stress has a direct effect on distress and insecurity, and an indirect effect on both quantitative demands and academic burnout. Both mediator constructs quantitative demands and distress have a direct effect on the academic burnout in students. A multi-group analysis was also conducted to compare the path coefficients of the estimated model by gender, but the differences are not statistically significant. These results allow a better understanding of burnout syndrome in ASU college students, which can severely limit their psychosocial well-being and performance.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.5138004
DO - 10.1063/1.5138004
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076790330
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2019, ICCMSE 2019
A2 - Simos, Theodore E.
A2 - Simos, Theodore E.
A2 - Simos, Theodore E.
A2 - Kalogiratou, Zacharoula
A2 - Monovasilis, Theodore
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
T2 - International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2019, ICCMSE 2019
Y2 - 1 May 2019 through 5 May 2019
ER -