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Relación entre el sentido de coherencia y el cansancio emocional en estudiantes universitarios. / Relationship between sense of coherence and emotional exhaustion in university students.
Author(s) -
Elena FernándezMartínez,
Cristina LiébanaPresa,
Consuelo Morán Astorga
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
psychology society and education
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2171-2085
pISSN - 1989-709X
DOI - 10.25115/psye.v9i3.861
Subject(s) - humanities , psychology , philosophy
espanolEl sentido de coherencia conduce a evaluar las circunstancias de la vida como significativas, predecibles y manejables por lo que esta considerando como una fuente que reduce el estres y promociona la vida saludable. Por otro lado, las multiples demandas que se plantean a los estudiantes en su periodo universitario pueden desencadenar estres. Con este estudio hemos querido averiguar si el sentido de coherencia esta relacionado con el cansancio emocional. Los participantes fueron 960 estudiantes universitarios (muestreo accidental), siendo el 81% mujeres. Respondieron a dos cuestionarios de autoinforme (el Cuestionario de Sentido de Coherencia SOC-13 y la Escala de Cansancio Emocional ECE). Se realizaron analisis de correlacion y la prueba t de Student para averiguar las diferencias entre grupos. Las mujeres puntuan mas alto que los hombres en cansancio emocional y los alumnos de tercero presentan mayores niveles de sentido de coherencia que los de primer curso. Los estudiantes con niveles altos de sentido de coherencia poseen niveles bajos de cansancio emocional, por lo que seria conveniente disenar y poner en marcha estrategias para aumentar el sentido de coherencia disminuyendo asi el cansancio emocional. EnglishThe sense of coherence helps us view life events as significant, predictable, and manageable and it is thus thought to reduce stress and promote health. In contrast, the multiple demands faced by university students can trigger stress. In this study, we aimed to determine if the sense of coherence was related to emotional exhaustion. Participants were 960 university students (convenience sampling), 81% were women. They completed two self-report questionnaires: the SOC-13 Sense of Coherence Questionnaire and the Emotional Exhaustion Scale. We did correlation analyses and the Student’s t test to detect differences between groups. Women scored higher than men in emotional exhaustion. The third year students achieved higher scores in sense of coherence than first year students. Students with high scores in sense of coherence showed low levels of emotional exhaustion. These results indicate that it would be useful to design and implement strategies that help increase the sense of coherence and therefore reduce emotional exhaustion in university students.

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