EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AND BURNOUT SYNDROME IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
College students; Burnout Syndrome; Stress; Executive Functions.
Students experience a pre-professional stage, and may be subject to assessments and achievement of goals, which can also generate Burnout Syndrome. The Syndrome is considered a prolonged state of stress, due to the overload of activities and the difficulty in managing it at work, which, in students, has been negatively associated with academic performance. Executive functions are a set of cognitive skills that allow the achievement of objectives and goals, planning actions, maintaining focus in the presence of distractors and are cited in the literature as predictors of better quality of life, academic and professional success. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the performance of the Executive Functions of university students with the presence of Burnout Syndrome. The following instruments will be used: a sociodemographic questionnaire to survey the profile of students, the Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey (MBI - SS) in order to verify the presence of Burnout Syndrome, the Barkley Executive Dysfunction Scale (BDEFS), in its short version, to assess Executive Functions and also the Functional Impairment Scale (EPF-ADHD), to investigate the existence of functional impairments in students. In this way, it is expected that the results can contribute to the discussion on the relationship between executive functions and academic burnout, as well as in the creation of intervention strategies focused on stress management.