The problem of professional burnout in the educational space of higher education institutions

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Микитюк О. М., Selmenska Z. M. № 2 (90) 290-298 Image Image

Objective requirements for innovative changes in the field of education, any innovative processes not only form the educational space of the institution, the facilitative and professional space of higher education in it, form and develop the professional competences of the teacher, but at the same time they place high demands on the adaptive resources of specialists. Teachers with low adaptive resources demonstrate a dec­rea­se in motivation and activity, deterioration of mental and physical well-being in situations of rapid innovative changes in the system. That is, the process of professional burnout occurs. Burnout is a maladaptive phenomenon that manifests itself at all levels of personality functioning: individual-psychological, socio-psychological and organizational.

This is a dynamic state, a mental formation that manifests itself in the unity and interconnection of emotional, cognitive and behavioral elements, the quantitative and qualitative composition of which is determined by professional activity. Professional burnout has a negative impact on all substructures of the specialist’s personality. Among the factors influencing the mental health of a teacher, a large group of external factors, personal factors, factors of influence of professional activity are distinguished. Therefore, it is important to outline the issues of professional burnout in the educational space and to substantiate the principles of combating professional burnout in the educational space of higher education institutions.

Keywords: professional burnout, educational space, higher education institutions, principles of combating professional burnout, facilitative-professional space of higher education, maladaptive phenomenon, low adaptive resource.

doi: 10.32403/0554-4866-2025-2-90-290-298


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