Abstract:

In today's ultra competitive environment, students face more stress than ever, being it related to studies, examination, peer, teachers or parent's pressure. Burnout may lead to mental distress in the form of anxiety, depression, frustration, hostility or fear. Prior research has shown that burnout can lead to lower commitment, higher turnover, absenteeism, reduced productivity, low morale, and lower human consideration (Cordes and Dougherty, 1993; Maslach and Pines, 1977; Maslach, 1978). Our research study comprised 200 engineering students studying in various colleges in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain (UAE) and intends to understand and investigate how Engineering students at Abu Dhabi University relate with studying and performance expectations including grading, comparing self sponsored engineering students with those students, especially in the College of Aviation, who are sponsored by the airlines and have to abide by the employer strict performance requirements.

The major variables in this study are burnout and academic performance. The data for these variables were collected from students of the College of Aviation and other engineering colleges in the UAE. The data were analyzed using ‘t’ test and chi-squire test. Stratified sampling has been used to select the sample for the investigation. The sample for the study has been drawn from universities across the U.A.E. The population for the study consists of UG students (male and female).

In this research, it was observed that personal burnout and study burnout is not significantly associated with the variables gender (female & male), age, year of study or GPA.

Keywords:

Burnout, Engagement, Fatigue, Intervention.