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The paper deals with the phenomenon of “soft” skills in the aspect of prevention and correction of professional burnout in terms of polytechnic education specialists. Burnout is a problem that must be solved for both current and future needs to help those who are already engaged in professional activities, as well as future professionals, both in engineering and teaching. The relevance of the study determines its subject matter – a professional burnout among teachers of technical universities and burnout prerequisites among students. The paper focuses on the individual, internal resources and personal characteristics as a means of combating the burnout syndrome. The combination of factors selected for the analysis has not been studied previously due to burnout. The MBI methodology, Emotional Intelligence and Decision Making scales were used in the work. Data processing was carried out with SPSS 27 software and R-studio.
The research was carried out based on a sample group of 59 teachers and 78 students working/studying in technical universities of St. Petersburg and representing both engineering and humanities. The empirical data of the study include description of the sample group from the point of view of the level of burnout; correlation analysis of indicators, which determines the relationship between the declared factors and burnout constructs, as well as between all the variables; factor analysis of the obtained data.
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Valieva, F. (2020). Soft Skills vs Professional Burnout: The Case of Technical Universities. In: Anikina, Z. (eds) Integrating Engineering Education and Humanities for Global Intercultural Perspectives. IEEHGIP 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47415-7_76
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