A Study of the Relationship between Resilience and Academic Burnout in Nursing Students

Nurses experience numerous stressors. Nursing students, despite their limited experience, are forced to face many stressors and this will cause academic burnout among them. Resiliency has a key role in the reduction of negative consequences and increasing of positive consequences of stress, and thus, can impact academic burnout. This study was performed to determine the relationship between resiliency and academic burnout in nursing students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 161 nursing students. Demographic characteristics form, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), and Academic Burnout Questionnaire (Breso et al.) were used to collect data. The results were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t-test, and ANOVA in SPSS software. P In this study, 154 (95.7%) participants were 19-24 years old, of whom, 62.7% were women and 37.3% were men. The mean scores of academic burnout and resiliency were 41.56 ± 8.65 and 66.32 ± 11.57, respectively. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient indicated an inverse statistical correlation between academic burnout and resiliency (r = -0.26, P = 0.001).
In the present study, a significant relationship was observed between academic burnout and resiliency among nursing students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences.ý Students with higher resiliency reported lower academic burnout.