Naslov
The burnout syndrome among music students and professional musicians in Croatia

Autori
Konjetić, Lea ; Kiš Žuvela, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Secong International Conference Psychology and Music – Interdisciplinary Encounters PAM-IE Belgrade 2022 ABSTRACT BOOKLET / Bogunović, Blanka ; Nikolić, Sanela - Beograd : Fakultet muzičke umetnosti Beograd, 2022, 150-151

ISBN
978-86-81340-51-6

Skup
Psychology and Music – Interdisciplinary Encounters

Mjesto i datum
Beograd, Srbija, 26.10.2022. - 29.10.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
burnout ; exhaustion ; music professionals ; music students ; stress

Sažetak
Background: According to the World Health Organization (2019), burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is merely recognized as any type of overworking, including student workload. Job-related stress and burnout have been acknowledged as a problem and heavily researched in various fields. Although burnout has been assessed in both professional musicians and music students separately (e.g. Middlestadt and Fishbein, 1988 ; Bernhard, 2010), little is known about the differences in perceived job-related stress of these two categories of musicians. // Aims: The study aims to measure and assess the general prevalence of burnout complaints in professional musicians and higher education music students in Croatia, to examine the differences between these two groups, as well as the impact of other contributing factors (such as gender, age, professional experience, other professional activities) to the perceived level of burnout. // Method: The sample consisted of 293 participants: 187 (n = 117 male, n = 70 female) formally trained professional musicians from several professional associations, aged mostly 36-50 years (49.2 %), and 106 (n = 29 male, n = 77 female) music students from the universities of Zagreb, Split, Osijek and Pula, mostly between 23 and 24 years old (38.7 %). The study was administered online using the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT ; Schaufeli et al., 2020) which measures burnout complaints. The BAT consists of four core symptoms subscales (Exhaustion, Mental Distance, Cognitive Impairment, and Emotional Impairment) and a two-subscale secondary symptoms scale (Psychological Distress and Psychosomatic Complaints) that are added together and interpreted as a whole. Scoring was assessed via a frequency based 5-point Likert scale. This study provides information about the overall level of burnout, the mean scores of subscale values, and the particular subscale items. // Results: The prevalence of burnout complaints in both groups was low to moderate. The difference in the overall levels was comparatively mild (M = 2.30, SD = .70 students, M = 1.93, SD = .57 professionals), but significant (t184 = 4.63, p < .001, d = .58). The assessed students’ burnout levels were generally higher in all subscales, particularly in Cognitive Impairment (M = 2.24 students > M = 1.70 professionals). The analysis of subscale items showed that students have a harder time getting up in the morning, feel more mentally drained, have more trouble concentrating, tend to worry and feel tense more often, and are significantly more prone to anxiety, panic attacks and feeling inexplicably sad. Working professionals more often complained that everything they do requires a great deal of effort. Male professionals had lower levels of burnout than male students but were slightly more prone to burnout than female professionals, while female students had the highest overall levels of burnout. // Conclusions: The study shows that the majority of formally educated musicians do not have excessive levels of burnout symptoms, but it also indicates that music students are generally more at risk of burning out. Although this may be due to the potential fact that, compared to the general population, students often tend to be more stressed, which may represent an avenue for further research, it is important that music educators take this risk into account and help young musicians cope with stress effectively.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija, Znanost o umjetnosti, Glazbena umjetnost

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