Self-Motivation and Social Support with Burnout Syndrome in students who completed Undergraduate Thesis

Background: The demand to complete the undergraduate thesis on time can cause burnout syndrome in students. Self-motivation and social support can influence burnout syndrome so that there are many incidents of students not graduating on time. This incident can affect the credibility of the education provider institution. Aim: To analyze self-motivation and social support with burnout syndrome. Methodology: The study used a cross-sectional design with 170 population, and the sampling technique was total sampling. The research variable consisted of independent variables, namely self-motivation and social support, while burnout syndrome was the dependent variable. Data collection using a questionnaire with multiple linear regression data analysis. Result: The results showed that self-motivation could cause emotional exhaustion, one of the dimensions of burnout syndrome. The higher is self-motivation, and the lower is emotional fatigue (p: 0.00). Social support can affect self-depersonalization and self-achievement, where the higher the social support, the lower the self-depersonalization and increase the self-achievement. Conclusions: The researchers suggest that students can always think positively, increase self-motivation, reduce emotional exhaustion, and get social support from the surrounding environment, such as family, friends, and lecturers.