Francisco Lucas Chinchilla, PhD, is associate professor, Department of Sciences Education.
Natalia Beni Fernández is an undergraduate student, Department of Economics and Business.
Soc Work. 2024 Oct 1;69(4):387-394. doi: 10.1093/sw/swae038.
Social workers have a greater than average risk of suffering burnout syndrome. In the same way as the professionals, students too can suffer academic burnout. However, few empirical studies have studied burnout and protective factors in social work students exclusively. Emotional intelligence (EI) has been described as a protective factor for burnout both in the professional and the academic context. The present study aims to explore which components of EI predict the burnout domains in students studying a degree in social work, in Spain. To this end, 87 social work students completed a questionnaire in which information was gathered on EI, burnout, average grade in the degree, and sociodemographic variables. The regression analysis results indicate that the students with poorer academic success and from higher years reported greater symptoms of burnout. Regarding the components of EI, emotional clarity and emotional repair predict the academic efficacy perceived by the students. These results highlight the importance of including EI in academic policies to promote the design of EI training programs aimed at developing EI skills, particularly emotional clarity and emotional repair, as a way of improving the perception of efficacy in social work students.
社会工作者患倦怠综合征的风险高于平均水平。与专业人士一样，学生也可能遭受学业倦怠。然而，很少有实证研究专门研究社会工作学生的倦怠和保护因素。情绪智力（EI）已被描述为专业和学术背景下倦怠的保护因素。本研究旨在探讨在西班牙攻读社会工作学位的学生中，哪些 EI 成分可以预测倦怠领域。为此，87 名社会工作专业的学生完成了一份问卷，其中收集了 EI、倦怠、学位平均成绩和社会人口统计学变量的信息。回归分析结果表明，学业成绩较差和年级较高的学生报告的倦怠症状更严重。关于 EI 的组成部分，情绪清晰度和情绪修复预测了学生感知到的学业效能。这些结果强调了将 EI 纳入学术政策的重要性，以促进设计 EI 培训计划，旨在培养 EI 技能，特别是情绪清晰度和情绪修复，作为提高社会工作学生效能感的一种方式。
