The emotional burnout syndrome among management students

Abstract

Mental health and well-being of a person are becoming a priority of the present day since they affect a lot of life aspects, including personal and professional. Burnout is a negative mental state of a person that occurs because of several factors. It is mainly committed to representatives of social professions, which include managers who constantly work with people. The paper aims to examine local students’ experiences of burnout and the onsequences of it for youngsters. First, the article briefly describes the nature of burnout and critically reviews the literature on the topic relevant to students. The qualitative research method was used in the form of semi-structured personal interviews with junior and senior Management students at Almaty Management University. The findings postulate about the level of burnout among students, the factors that trigger their burnout state, and the ways that students use to prevent it. The results of this study may be useful for further longitudinal studies and applied to preventing burnout among students of higher educational institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Keywords: emotional burnout syndrome, students, Management major, stress, university.