Cechy osobowości, orientacja sprawcza i wspólnotowa a wypalenie w nauce zdalnej studentów różnych lat

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic forced an immediate transition of education to remote. This affected the students significantly. The aim of this study is to examine the level of academic burnout in remote learning during the pandemic, taking into account personality differences (Big Five traits: conscientiousness, neuroticism; communal orientation) as predictors. The difference in the burnout level within two groups was also examined – people learning remotely from the beginning and those who previously studied stationary. A personal survey and three questionnaires were used: the Polish adaptation of the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI-PL) by Sorokowska, Słowińska, Zbieg and Sorokowski measuring Big Five traits, the Scale Measuring Agency and Communion by Wojciszke and Szlendak, and the Polish adaptation of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) by Chirkowska-Smolak measuring burnout. 587 students aged 18–48 participated in the study. A general hypothesis was that the mentioned individual differences stand as burnout level predictors. The results confirmed that a high level of neuroticism and communal orientation predict higher exhaustion – one of the burnout factors. Higher conscientiousness predicts lower burnout levels in both factors (exhaustion and disengagement). Results also showed that people who previously studied stationary had higher burnout levels than those studying remotely from the beginning – the difference is slight.