AUTHOR=Carranza Esteban Renzo Felipe , Mamani-Benito Oscar , Castillo-Blanco Ronald , Caycho-Rodríguez Tomás , Villafuerte de la Cruz Avelino Sebastián , Dávila Villavicencio Roussel 

TITLE=Effect of emotional exhaustion on satisfaction with studies and academic procrastination among Peruvian university students

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Education

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1015638

DOI=10.3389/feduc.2023.1015638

ISSN=2504-284X

ABSTRACT=<sec id="sec1"><title>Objective</title><p>To examine the effect of emotional exhaustion on satisfaction with studies and academic procrastination among Peruvian university students.</p></sec><sec id="sec2"><title>Methods</title><p>An explanatory study was conducted with 1,011 Peruvian university students (60.2% women and 39.8% men). The Brief Satisfaction with Studies Scale (EBSE), Emotional Exhaustion Scale (ECE), and the Academic Procrastination Scale (EPA) were used to measure the variables.</p></sec><sec id="sec3"><title>Results</title><p>The results revealed that the explanatory model had an acceptable fit, <italic>χ</italic><sup>2</sup>(1) = 7.7, <italic>p</italic> = 0.006, CFI = 0.982, RMSEA = 0.081, SRMR = 0.021. These findings provide evidence that emotional exhaustion negatively affects satisfaction with studies (<italic>β</italic> = −0.30, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001) and positively influences academic procrastination (<italic>β</italic> = 0.15, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001).</p></sec><sec id="sec4"><title>Conclusion</title><p>Emotional exhaustion is decisive in satisfaction with studies and academic procrastination.</p></sec>