RT Journal Article
T1 Organisational justice, burnout, and engagement in university students : a comparison between stressful aspects of labour and university organisation
A1 Navarro Abal, Yolanda
A1 Gómez Salgado, Juan
A1 López López, María Josefa
A1 Climent Rodríguez, José Antonio
AB Burnout, engagement, and organisational justice concepts are usually studied in thecontext of labour organisations, but not in universities. For this, the objective of this research isto identify the students’ empirically evidenced relationships in the employment context, such aslevels of organisational justice, stress indicators, burnout and work commitment. On the other hand,engagement is analysed as a mediating variable that explains the relationship between organisationaljustice and burnout. A sample of 543 students from three Spanish universities, selected by purposivesampling, is used ensuring voluntary and anonymous participation. The instruments used tomeasure the four variables to analyse are a protocol for data collection, MBI-SS instrument forAcademic Burnout, Utrecht Work Engagement Student Scale (UWES) for Engagement and the Scaleof Organisational Justice for Organisational Justice. As a result, college students show behavioursthat promote academic achievement, and they feel more engaged when they are treated fairly. As forthe burnout syndrome dimensions, average levels of emotional exhaustion and academic efficacy,and high levels of cynicism are revealed. In addition, the proposed structural equation modelsupports the main hypothesis; engagement is a mediating variable in the organisational justiceand burnout relationship. To conclude, academic stress and its explanatory framework cannotbe conceived only from an organisational perspective, where the context of each student must beconsidered. The adoption of organisational preventive measures can be relevant in ensuring a healthyand conducive academic performance in our students.
PB MDPI
SN 1661-7827
SN 1660-4601 electrónico
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16024
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16024
LA eng
NO Navarro-Abal, Y., Gómez-Salgado, J., López-López, M., & Climent-Rodríguez, J. (2018).  "Organisational justice, burnout, and engagement in university students : a comparison between stressful aspects of labour and university organisation". Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(10), 2116. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102116
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026