Affective Structures among Students and Their Relationship with Academic Burnout

• Authors: Abdulwahab Pourghaz , Afsaneh Marziyeh , Somaye Bikar

Abstracts

EN

The presented study aimed to determine the relationship between affective structures and academic burnout among male and female third grade high school students in Zahedan in the 2016/2017 school year. The descriptive-correlational study had a sample including 362 students selected with the use of a multistage cluster sampling method. To collect data, the Academic Burnout Questionnaire (Berso et al., 1997) and Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (Watson et al., 1988) were used. Results of the present study indicated that positive affect was significantly and diversely related to the subscales of academic burnout (academic fatigue, academic apathy, and academic inefficiency). Moreover, negative affect was significantly and directly related to all the subscales of academic burnout. Results of an independent t-test demonstrated that there were no significant differences between the male and female students with regard to positive and negative affects. However, academic burnout was higher among the male students compared to their female counterparts. Furthermore, results of a stepwise regression analysis showed that in the first step, positive affect alone predicted 22% of the variance in academic burnout and in the second step, negative affect increased the power of predicting academic burnout to 28%. Given the predictive power of affect, it can be effectively applied to prevent academic burnout.

Keywords

EN

affective structures; positive affect; negative affect; academic burnout; students

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 50
• Pages: 47-55

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Abdulwahab Pourghaz

author

Afsaneh Marziyeh

author

Somaye Bikar

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2017.50.4.04

Biblioteka Nauki

1997532