The phenomenon of children’s emotional burnout in a children’s health camp

Abstract

In this article, there are considered concepts of emotional and professional burnout, carried out their differentiation, based on the scope of their manifestation and the specifics of the type of activity. That raised the problem of the possibility of the existence of emotional burnout of children, which predictor may be the educational environment, and it has a significant impact on the psychological well-being of the subjects of the educational process. The purpose of the study was to identify the existence of emotional burnout of children in the educational environment. To achieve it, the authors proposed and implemented the following tasks: 1) to highlight the specific features of summer camps as an educational environment; 2) to determine the preconditions leading to the emotional burnout of children in the educational environment; 3) to adapt the methodology for diagnosing emotional burnout of children; 4) to measure the levels of emotional burnout at the beginning and at the end of the session in camp and to compare the identified indicators using methods of mathematical statistics (Student’s t-test for dependent samples). The adapted russification of the Maslach Questionnaire (MBI) by N.E. Vodopyanova was used on a sample of 10 to 16 years old. The result of empirical research demonstrated the existence of emotional burnout of children and opened the perspectives for research into the phenomenon of children’s emotional burnout.

Keywords

• emotional burnout
• educational environment
• children’s camp
• children’s emotional burnout
• mbi questionnaire adaptation