title: Perception of economic crisis among Spanish nursing students: Its relation to burnout and engagement.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The high levels of indebtedness and deficit of Spain's autonomous communities as a consequence of the national and European economic crisis have caused radical changes in the Spanish National Health Service. At the present time, the economic crisis is seriously affecting nurses in several European countries, and especially in Spain.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to analyse whether nursing students' perceptions of economic crisis influence their levels of burnout and engagement in relation to their studies. We have also tried to clarify the relationship of sociodemographic variables (age and gender) and personal control factors (self-efficacy, locus of control and success) with these factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a transversal study based on descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. Analysis of the quantitative data was performed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences, IBM 19.0 (SPSS, 2010).
  
  
  METHODS
  166 nursing students participated in the study, comprising 142 women and 24 men studying in Schools of Nursing in the North of Spain. They completed various questionnaires to gather information on sociodemographic variables and measure burnout, engagement, locus of control, expectations of success and perceptions of threat due to the economic crisis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Higher perception of economic crisis by the students is related to higher scores for burnout and lower scores for engagement. The scores for burnout were also positively predicted by external locus of control and negatively predicted by perception of self-efficacy. The age of participants is related to lower levels of burnout and higher levels of engagement. Finally, expectation of success also positively predicted the level of engagement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results demonstrate the importance of the perceptions of the economic crisis on the development of burnout and engagement among nursing students.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sciences Education, University of La Rioja, C/La Cigüeña, n° 60, 26004 Logroño, Spain. Electronic address: guadalupe.manzano@unirioja.es.
authors.forename: Guadalupe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Manzano-García
authors.affiliation: Department of Sciences Education, University of La Rioja, Edif Vives. C/ Luis de Ulloa, 2, 26004 Logroño, Spain. Electronic address: maria-pilar.montanes@unirioja.es.
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Montañés
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Campus Universitario de Cartuja, 18071 Granada, Spain. Electronic address: jlmegias@ugr.es.
authors.forename: Jesús L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Megías
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional; D057172:Economic Recession; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013030:Spain; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Burnout; Economic crisis; Engagement; Locus of control; Nursing students; Self-efficacy; Success