Article

Received 04.08.2025

Revised 01.12.2025

Accepted 23.12.2025

Published 06.01.2026

Retrieved from Vol. 15, No. 2, 2025

Pages 57 -70

Kovalkova, T., & Rybalka, V. (2025). Value regulation of the state of emotional burnout of students. Psychology and Personality, 15(2), 57-70. https://doi.org/10.33989/2226-4078.2025.2.57

Value regulation of the state of emotional burnout of students

Tetiana Kovalkova Valeriia Rybalka

The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between value regulation and emotional burnout among students of higher education institutions. Based on an analysis of scientific literature, it was found that emotional burnout is considered a complex psychological phenomenon that arises as a result of chronic stress and manifests itself through emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduction of personal achievements. Based on theoretical analysis, it was found that the value sphere of the personality is a fundamental psychological formation of a multi-component structure, which performs motivational, regulatory and integration functions in the process of personal development. It has been found that during student age, value orientations are formed under the influence of the educational environment, family surrounding, individual and psychological characteristics and perform a regulatory function regarding emotional burnout, acting as protective or risk factors. An empirical study of the relationship between value regulation and emotional burnout among students was conducted. It was found that about a quarter of students are in a state of pronounced emotional burnout, a third are at risk, but the majority demonstrate resistance to emotional exhaustion. It has been established that the value profile of students is characterised by high indicators of openness to change and self-transcendence with low indicators of self-aggrandizement and conservatism. Correlation analysis confirmed the presence of statistically significant relationships: openness to change and self-transcendence showed negative correlations with the components of emotional burnout, acting as protective factors, while self-exaltation demonstrated the strongest positive relationships with all components of burnout, acting as a risk factor. The practical value of the study lies in the development by teachers of higher education institutions, practical psychologists, curators of academic groups and specialists of psychological support centres of preventive programmes and methods of psychological support to prevent emotional burnout of students

emotional exhaustion; depersonalisation; learner; personality; reduction; value orientations
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