The Impact of Academic Workload on the Burnout of Architecture Students.

Authors

  • Mayyadah Lutfi Abdulwahhab, Abeer Qasim Jbur. Abdulbaqi Ghazi Hussein

Keywords:

Academic workload, Burnout, Architectural students, Architectural education, Perceived Academic Workload, quantitative workload, qualitative workload.

Abstract

The research presents a definition of the academic workload as an important factor that affects students and how they perceive the nature of the curriculum and cope with the psychological pressures generated from it in architectural education. It also defines burnout in architectural education. An academic workload scale was constructed based on previous studies, along with a modified burnout scale according to the nature of the architecture department. A survey was conducted with 63 fourth-year students in the Department of Architecture at the College of Engineering at Al-Mustansiriya University.

The research aims to study the relationship between academic workload and its role in student stress, fatigue, and burnout. The data was statistically analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling with the Smart-PLS4 program and statistical analysis using SPSS v.28 for the study variables.

The results identified the dimensions of academic workload that affected the levels of fatigue among architecture students. It showed that all dimensions of academic workload influence burnout, with teaching methods and learning environment having the most impact on burnout, followed by course management, and personal characteristics ranking last.

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09.07.2024

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Mayyadah Lutfi Abdulwahhab. (2024). The Impact of Academic Workload on the Burnout of Architecture Students. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 12(22s), 1564 –. Retrieved from https://ijisae.org/index.php/IJISAE/article/view/6702

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Vol. 12 No. 22s (2024)

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