Associations between academic burnout, resilience and life satisfaction among medical students: a three-wave longitudinal study

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Abstract

Background

Research shows that there are connections among academic burnout, resilience, and life satisfaction in medical students. However, no study has yet examined the temporal relationships between academic burnout, resilience, and life satisfaction among medical students. This longitudinal study aimed to examine the temporal associations between academic burnout, resilience, and life satisfaction and to explore the possible mediating role of resilience in the relationship between academic burnout and life satisfaction among medical students.

Methods

This is a three-wave longitudinal study covering the preclinical education period of 20 months. From October 2018 to June 2020, a total of 190 students majoring in clinical medicine filled out the Chinese College Student Academic Burnout Inventory (CCSABI), the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) three times. Cross-lagged models were constructed to examine the temporal relationships between academic burnout, resilience, and life satisfaction and longitudinal mediation models were constructed to explore the possible mediating role of resilience in the association of academic burnout with life satisfaction.

Results

Among medical students, resilience uni-directionally and positively predicted life satisfaction, while academic burnout uni-directionally and negatively predicted life satisfaction. However, the temporal association between resilience and academic burnout was negative and somewhat bidirectional. Resilience had a significant mediating effect on the relationship between academic burnout and life satisfaction in medical students.

Conclusions

Medical educators need to identify and take effective measures to combat academic burnout problems which can lead to reduced life satisfaction among medical students. Resilience-based interventions may be promising in buffering the negative impacts of academic burnout and improving life satisfaction. It is recommended that effective resilience-promotion interventions be developed and implemented in medical education to help enhance medical students’ psychological well-being.

Supplementary Information

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-022-03326-6.

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Contributors

Qinghua Wang: hester0064@126.com

Wei Sun: wsun@cmu.edu.cn

Huazhang Wu: wuhuazhang@126.com

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): BMC Med Educ

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): BMC Med Educ

Title: BMC Medical Education

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Electronic): 1472-6920

Publication date (Electronic): 5 April 2022

Publication date PMC-release: 5 April 2022

Publication date Collection: 2022

Volume: 22

Electronic Location Identifier: 248

Affiliations

[1 ]GRID grid.412449.e, ISNI 0000 0000 9678 1884, Institute of Foreign Languages, , China Medical University, ; No. 77 Puhe Road, Shenyang North New Area, Shenyang, Liaoning Province People’s Republic of China

[2 ]GRID grid.412449.e, ISNI 0000 0000 9678 1884, Research Center for Universal Health, School of Public Health, , China Medical University, ; No. 77 Puhe Road, Shenyang North New Area, Shenyang, Liaoning Province People’s Republic of China

[3 ]GRID grid.412449.e, ISNI 0000 0000 9678 1884, Department of Health Service Administration, College of Health Management, , China Medical University, ; No. 77 Puhe Road, Shenyang North New Area, Shenyang, Liaoning Province People’s Republic of China

Article

Publisher ID: 3326

DOI: 10.1186/s12909-022-03326-6

PMC ID: 8980514

PubMed ID: 35382810

SO-VID: 20f5cff6-7ba7-4ca0-91c8-b58269c2b3c3

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History

Date received : 24 April 2021

Date accepted : 30 March 2022

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Education

Keywords: medical students,academic burnout,resilience,life satisfaction,longitudinal study,temporal relationships,mediation

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Education

Keywords: medical students, academic burnout, resilience, life satisfaction, longitudinal study, temporal relationships, mediation