The relationship between professional commitment, time management disposition and learning burnout of the rural medical orientation undergraduate students

Abstract

Objective To investigate the rural medical orientation undergraduate student's professional commitment, time management disposition and learning burnout and the relationship between them. Methods Use the college students' learning Burnout scale, adolescence time management disposition Questionnaire and College Students' professional commitment scale, survey of Xinxiang Medical University grade 2010 ~2012, 739 valid questionnaires, the questionnaire has 92.61% efficiency. Results Three scores were normally distribution. Learning burnout was the medium level, the average score of each entry was 2.88±0.45, and moderate and above level learning burnout ratio was 45.06%. The average score of time management disposition was3.45±0.43. Professional commitment level was higher, the average score was 3.82±0.43 for each item. Affective commitment, ideal commitment, the sense of time efficacy and the sense of time control have entered on the learning burnout of the stepwise regression equation, and four variables together explained 44.0% of the variance in the dependent variable. Time management disposition, the professional commitment and learning burnout were negatively correlated, but between time management disposition and professional commitment is positively related, professional commitment, the variance explained by variables of learning burnout was 30.12%. Conclusion The rural medical orientation of undergraduate students time management disposition are important factors of learning burnout, which has the forecast function to the learning burnout. Professional commitment is part of the intermediary variables. Key words: The rural medical orientation of undergraduate students; Learning burnout; Time management disposition; Professional commitment