The Relationships between Emotional Burnout and Motivational, Semantic and Communicative Features of Psychology Students

Abstract

There is a direct relation between burnout, organizational aspects of learning and individual psychological characteristics of students. Burnout is progressing more quickly in students with low motivation to learning and communication, utilitarian, practical and professionally meaningful motives. That can be explained by age-related characteristics. Also burn more of those students who do not comply to the strategy of cooperation in interpersonal relationship and display aggression. Thus, motivational and personal features of an individual and the strategies of interpersonal communication influence the development of burnout in students during their study. Sixty healthy volunteers who were psychology students aged 18 to 23 years participated in the study.