Academic Burnout, Resilience and Their Relations with Psychological Wellbeing of Baccalaureate Nursing Students

Academic burnout is one of most challenges in nursing education. It’s characterized by emotional exhaustion, cynicism and low personal efficacy. So, resilience helps nursing students to handle stressful situations and have more psychological wellbeing. Psychological well-being of nursing students is associated with more productive and successful in academic learning and clinical practice. Aim of the study: was explore academic burnout, resilience and their relation with psychological wellbeing of baccalaureate nursing students. Subject: All nursing students in the third and fourth academic year (2022-2023) at the Faculty of Nursing at Tanta University. The total number of studied students were )1487) students involved (997) students in third academic year and (490) students in fourth academic year. Study design : A descriptive correlation research design was utilized. Study tools: three tools were used: Tool 1 was Nursing students' academic burnout questionnaire, Tool 2 was Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and Tool 3 was Ryff’s Psychological Wellbeing Scale. Results: This study revealed that around half of the nursing students have high level of academic burnout, while, more than half of the nursing students have low level of resilience, low level of psychological well-being. Also, there is highly negative statistical significant correlation between academic burnout and psychological well-being. Also, there is highly positive statistical significant correlation between resilience and psychological well-being. In addition, there is highly negative statistical significant correlation between resilience and academic burnout. Conclusion: It can be concluded that, academic burnout leads to distress and has effects on psychological well-being. Resilience is a protective factor that the nursing students who have more resilience are likely to have less academic burnout and perceived more psychological wellbeing. Recommendations : Managing resilience skills training for nursing students in the curriculum, lectures, seminars and other workshops . Giving counseling and guidance to nursing students about adaptive stress managements and coping skills.