This study has three main objectives. The first is to know to which degree engagement, as a person variable, and each of its modalities—agency, behavior, cognition, and emotion—are affected by the interaction with several learning situations, listening to a lecture, carrying out practical tasks alone, reading a text while studying, working in groups, or participating in practical classes. The second is to test its relationships with potential moderator variables—motivation, self-efficacy, emotion self-regulation, and stress—and its potential effects on performance and satisfaction. Participants were 531 university students. They filled in a questionnaire that allowed testing alternative theoretical models on the person-situation hypothesis using confirmatory factor analyses. Results showed that if items refer both to engagement modalities and learning situations, the traditional hierarchical model that considers that engagement depends on a personal disposition with four components does not fit well. Instead, the multitrait model does. It shows that engagement, as a general disposition, is activated by the set of situations and that each of its components only plays a role in some of them. The hypotheses on the relationship between engagement and the rest of the variables received positive support. These results open new perspectives for studying and improving engagement.

Adaptation and psychometric properties of the SBI-U scale for Academic Burnout in university students. [Adaptación y propiedades psicométricas de la escala SBI-U sobre Burnout Académico en estudiantes universitarios]

El objetivo del presente artículo es profundizar en el posible rol modulador que pueden ejercer variables como la autoeficacia y la autorregulación en la experiencia del estrés laboral. La revisión bibliográfica llevada a cabo sobre este tema resulta un tanto ambigua, por este motivo este estudio puede aportar nuevas evidencias empíricas sobre la relación entre estas variables. La muestra estaba compuesta por 106 profesores de Educación Primaria, un colectivo que está sometido a niveles importantes de estrés en su contexto laboral. En cuanto a los instrumentos, fueron 4 las herramientas utilizadas en la investigación, la Escala de Irritación y el Cuestionario Breve de Burnout para medir las variables dependientes y la Escala de Autoeficacia General y la Escala de Autorregulación como variables independientes explicativas del modelo. El análisis llevado a cabo fue un análisis de correlaciones y un análisis de regresión lineal múltiple. Los resultados confirmaron las hipótesis de partida, ya que los sujetos con puntuaciones más altas en autoeficacia y autorregulación presentan menores niveles de estrés. En cuanto al análisis de regresión llevado cabo, los resultados obtenidos, aún siendo significativos, no ofrecen un papel muy importante a las variables independientes consideradas en la explicación del estrés laboral.

The objective of this study was to adapt and validate the Recovery Experience Questionnaire for use in an educational context. So far, this measure of detachment has mainly been used with workers. The study aimed to verify the factor validity and the criterion-related validity through correlation with self-regulation, engagement, coping strategies, and big-five personality dimensions in a sample of 468 Spanish university students. Several models proposed in the literature have been tested through confirmatory factor analysis. The results obtained confirmed the presence of four factors: psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery and control, as observed in previous studies within a workplace setting. Correlations obtained between these factors and the variables considered verified that detachment is significantly and positively associated with self-regulation, engagement, coping strategies, and certain types of personality; on the other side, detachment is significantly and negatively associated with irritation.