Psychological Burnout and Its Relationship to Academic Stress Among Working Students

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the relationship between psychological burnout and academic stress among working students at certain faculties of the University of Constantine 2. It also sought to identify differences in the sample's scores on psychological burnout and academic stress according to various study variables, including gender and academic major.  A descriptive correlational approach was adopted. The sample included 172 male and female students who were randomly selected. We used two research instruments : the Psychological Burnout Questionnaire and the Academic Stress Questionnaire. To analyze the results, the arithmetic mean and the t-test were used to determine differences between two independent samples, and the correlation coefficient was used to identify the relationship between psychological burnout and academic stress.

The study found a correlation between psychological burnout and academic stress, statistically significant differences in the sample’s psychological burnout scores based on gender (in favor of females), and no statistically significant differences in functional stress among students at the University of Constantine 2 based on academic major.