A síndrome de Burnout em estudantes de ciências contábeis : pesquisa na cidade de São Paulo

Abstract

Many times, the entrance to higher education is the moment when students start to have contact with their future careers, aiming to graduate and become professionals in their chosen area. Nowadays, the future accountant professional will find a globalized and competitive job market, with many types of demands. Graduating is not a guarantee for professional success, because students will need opportunities for starting a career, aiming to update and stand out. Such students, whose academic and professional life usually conflict, may have certain behaviors that may lead to the Burnout Syndrome. In this context, the aim of this research was to verify the prevalence of social demographic, work and academic patterns in last year students of Accountancy undergraduate courses in São Paulo city, exposed to the Burnout Syndrome. This was an analytical empirical research, involving 419 Accountancy students from seven private universities from São Paulo city. It was used the MBI-HSS (Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey) questionnaire, adapted by Carloto and Câmara (2006). It was possible to verify socio demographic, work and academic patters, and significant divergences among the groups who work in external auditing companies, in accountancy area in other companies, interns and the ones who were not working during the research. After changing three dimensions concerning the research variables, the following results were stated: 194 students (46,30%) showed changes in the dimension Emotional Exhaustion (EE), 47 (11,22%) in Disbelief (DE) and 131 (31,26%) in Professional Efficiency (PE). The subjects were divided in three groups, according to the number of dimensions that showed changes. In Group 1, 276 subjects (67%) showed changes in EE. In Group2, 67 subjects (16%) showed changes in EE and in one of the other dimensions. In Group 3, 17 subjects (4,05%) showed a degree of exposure in those three dimensions at the same time. Moreover, it was possible to verify the following results. For subjects in Group 1, working in auditing companies and studying at Centro Universitário Assunção (UNIFAI) permit more exposure. The subjects from Universidade Mackenzie showed, in all groups, bigger chances of exposure to the Burnout Syndrome. The same goes for subjects in Group 3, who study at Universidade São Judas Tadeu. To sum up, It was identified that, for all subjects from the three groups, the feeling of not being skilled can enhance the chances of exposure to the Burnout Syndrome