The effects of psychological maladjustments on predicting developmental trajectories of academic burnout

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 217-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Young Lee ◽  
Sang Min Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Burnout ◽  
Growth Mixture ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
Symptom Check List

We identified developmental trajectories of academic burnout related to psychological maladjustments (i.e., compulsion and depression) in 7th and 8th grade Korean adolescents. This is vital because it facilitates early awareness of burnout trends and related psychological maladjustments, which might influence mental health problems, thus promoting proactive prevention and intervention before deterioration. We utilized four-wave longitudinal data from 415 adolescents who completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey and Symptom Check List-47. Data were analysed using growth mixture modeling. The results indicated that developmental trajectories of academic burnout can be characterized by three linear trajectories, ‘moderate-maintain’ ( N = 213, 51.33%) which is related to depression, ‘low-deteriorated’ ( N = 15, 3.61%) which is related to compulsion, and ‘well-adjusted’ ( N = 158, 38.07%) which is related to no maladjustment symptoms. This longitudinal study promotes understanding of middle school students who may experience academic burnout and can facilitate early interventions for academic burnout.

scholarly journals Academic Burnout and Academic Achievement among Secondary School Students in Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Syprine Oyoo ◽  
Peter Mwaura ◽  
Theresia Kinai ◽  
Josephine Mutua
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Burnout ◽  
Context Data ◽  
Academic Grades ◽  
The Relationship

The study examined the relationship between academic burnout and academic achievement among secondary school students in the Kenyan context. Data were collected from 714 form 4 students (equivalent to 12th graders) drawn from 31 public secondary schools. The Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey was used. Academic achievement was measured using students’ grades in end of term examinations. The results of the Pearson product moment correlation of coefficient revealed a significant inverse relationship between academic burnout and academic achievement (r (712) = −0.24, p<0.01). Furthermore, regression analysis revealed that academic efficacy significantly predicted academic achievement (β = 0.18, p<0.01). A key implication of the findings is that examination-oriented approach to learning be reduced to ease the pressure exerted on learners for good academic grades.

scholarly journals Psychological Analysis among Goal Orientation, Emotional Intelligence and Academic Burnout in Middle School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 8160
Author(s):  
Pablo Usán Supervía ◽  
Carlos Salavera Bordás ◽  
Víctor Murillo Lorente
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Adaptive Behaviors ◽  
Task Orientation ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Burnout ◽  
Mood Scale

During schooling, students can undergo, for more or less long periods of time, different contextual settings that can negatively affect their personal and academic development, leading them not to meet their academic goals. The main objective of this research responds to examine the relationships between the constructs of goal orientations, emotional intelligence, and burnout in students. Method: This research comprised 2896 students from 15 Spanish high schools with ages between 12 and 18 years distributed across male (N = 1614; 55.73%) and female (N = 1282; 44.26%) genders. The measurements were made through Perception of Success Questionnaire (POSQ), the Trait Meta Mood Scale (TMMS-24) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS). Results: Results showed links between task orientation, high emotional intelligence levels, and adaptive behaviors and between ego orientation, academic burnout and less adaptive behavior. Similarly, it was shown that emotional intelligence can be used to predict goal-oriented behaviors. Conclusion: It is argued that the promotion of task orientation among secondary school students can lead to the adoption of adaptive behaviors and this, in turn, improve the development of students toward academic and personal settings.

scholarly journals Prevalence and relationship between burnout and depression in our future doctors: a cross-sectional study in a cohort of preclinical and clinical medical students in Ireland

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. e023297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orla Fitzpatrick ◽  
Regien Biesma ◽  
Ronán M Conroy ◽  
Alice McGarvey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Willingness To Use

ObjectivesThis cross-sectional study was designed to measure burnout and its impact on risk of depression in a medical student population, comparing the preclinical and clinical years.DesignWe conducted a survey of 269 medical school students in both preclinical and clinical years at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, using the Beck Depression Inventory-Fast Screen (BDI-FS), the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey and items assessing willingness to use mental health services. Burnout scores were calibrated to probability of depression caseness and classified as low risk (<25%), intermediate (25%–50%) and high risk (>50%) of depression.ResultsThere was a 39% (95% CI 33% to 45%) prevalence of depressive caseness based on a score of ≥6 on the BDI-FS. Prevalence did not vary significantly between clinical and preclinical years. The rate of burnout varied significantly between years (p=0.032), with 35% in the high-burnout category in clinical years compared with 26% in preclinical years. Those in the low burnout category had a 13% overall prevalence of depressive symptoms, those in the intermediate category had a 38% prevalence and those in the high category had a 66% prevalence of depressive symptoms. Increasing emotional exhaustion (OR for one—tertile increase in score 2.0, p=0.011) and decreasing academic efficacy (OR 2.1, p=0.007) increased the odds of being unwilling to seek help for mental health problems (11%).ConclusionWhile previous studies have reported significant levels of burnout and depression, our method of calibrating burnout against depression allows burnout scores to be interpreted in terms of their impact on mental health. The high prevalences, in line with previous research, point to an urgent need to rethink the psychological pressures of health professions education.

scholarly journals Effects of personality on the developmental trajectories of academic burnout among Korean medical students

PeerJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. e10362
Author(s):  
Han Chae ◽  
C. Robert Cloninger ◽  
Soo Jin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Profile Analysis ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developmental Trajectory ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Academic Burnout

Background Medical students have a high risk of burnout from tremendous academic stress, and previous cross-sectional studies have explained this risk from the personality perspective. However, the relationship between complex personality profiles and developmental trajectory of burnout has not been delineated yet. Methods The longitudinal changes in burnout were measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS) at baseline (1st week), mid-term (9th week), and end-term (17th week), and personality was examined at baseline using the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). Latent trajectory groups based on the MBI-SS total scores were extracted using the General Growth Mixture Model (GGMM), and significant differences in personality profiles among the latent groups were identified using profile analysis and Analysis of Variance. Results Three burnout trajectory groups of high-increasing (HI), moderate-increasing (MI), and low-stable (LS) were identified, and these groups had significantly different TCI subscale profiles. The HI group had the highest score in Harm-Avoidance (HA) and lowest score in Self-Directedness (SD), and the MI group had a higher score in HA and lower scores in SD and Cooperativeness (CO) when compared to the LS group with the lowest score in HA and highest scores in SD and CO. Conclusion The current study showed that the HA, SD, and CO subscales of the TCI might explain the longitudinal development of academic burnout in medical students. Prevention of burnout and promotion of well-being in medical education concerning personality are discussed.

Developmental Trajectories of Parental Knowledge During Early Adolescence and Their Psychosocial Predictors

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Spaeth ◽  
Karina Weichold ◽  
Rainer K. Silbereisen
Keyword(s):  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
Parental Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Growth Mixture ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Sample Characteristics ◽  
Level Group

Recent studies revealed that parental knowledge of the child’s activities and whereabouts moderately declines during adolescence. This study investigated whether (a) there exist trajectory classes that considerably deviate from this average trend and (b) whether early psychosocial factors distinguish the trajectory subgroups. Analyses were based on a German sample of school students ( N = 715) who provided annual self-reports from age 10 to 14 years. Growth mixture modeling revealed two same-sized trajectory groups of parental knowledge that both displayed a moderate decline and were only distinguishable by different levels. Membership in the lower level group was associated with a difficult temperament, poor family relationships, problems with peers, and male gender. Contrary to other studies, findings indicated that trajectory classes of parental knowledge which substantially deviate from the normative decline do not exist. Sample characteristics, the focus on early adolescence, and a thorough application of growth mixture specifications may explain our findings.

scholarly journals Effortful Control and Community Violence Exposure as Predictors of Developmental Trajectories of Self-serving Cognitive Distortions in Adolescence: A Growth Mixture Modeling Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 2358-2371
Author(s):  
Concetta Esposito ◽  
Gaetana Affuso ◽  
Mirella Dragone ◽  
Dario Bacchini
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Community Violence ◽  
Violence Exposure ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Cognitive Distortions ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
Community Violence Exposure ◽  
School Students ◽  
High Exposure

Abstract Self-serving cognitive distortions are biased or rationalizing beliefs and thoughts that originate from the individual persistence into immature moral judgment stages during adolescence and adulthood, increasing the individual’s engagement in antisocial or immoral conducts. To date, the literature examining trajectories of cognitive distortions over time and their precursors is limited. This study sought to fill this gap, by examining effortful control and community violence exposure as individual and environmental precursors to developmental trajectories of cognitive distortions in adolescence. The sample consisted of 803 Italian high school students (349 males; Mage = 14.19, SD = 0.57). Three trajectories of cognitive distortions were identified: (1) moderately high and stable cognitive distortions (N = 311), (2) moderate and decreasing cognitive distortions (N = 363), and (3) low and decreasing cognitive distortions (N = 129). Both low effortful control and high exposure to community violence were significant predictors for moderately high and stable trajectory of cognitive distortions. These results point to the importance of considering moral development as a process involving multiple levels of individual ecology, highlighting the need to further explore how dispositional and environmental factors might undermine developmental processes of morality.

scholarly journals Child personality facets and overreactive parenting as predictors of aggression and rule-breaking trajectories from childhood to adolescence

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrik I. Becht ◽  
Peter Prinzie ◽  
Maja Deković ◽  
Alithe L. van den Akker ◽  
Rebecca L. Shiner
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
Mixture Modeling ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Growth Mixture ◽  
Personality Facets ◽  
Rule Breaking ◽  
Overreactive Parenting

AbstractThis study examined trajectories of aggression and rule breaking during the transition from childhood to adolescence (ages 9–15), and determined whether these trajectories were predicted by lower order personality facets, overreactive parenting, and their interaction. At three time points separated by 2-year intervals, mothers and fathers reported on their children's aggression and rule breaking (N = 290, M age = 8.8 years at Time 1). At Time 1, parents reported on their children's personality traits and their own overreactivity. Growth mixture modeling identified three aggression trajectories (low decreasing, high decreasing, and high increasing) and two rule-breaking trajectories (low and high). Lower optimism and compliance and higher energy predicted trajectories for both aggression and rule breaking, whereas higher expressiveness and irritability and lower orderliness and perseverance were unique risk factors for increasing aggression into adolescence. Lower concentration was a unique risk factor for increasing rule breaking. Parental overreactivity predicted higher trajectories of aggression but not rule breaking. Only two Trait × Overreactivity interactions were found. Our results indicate that personality facets could differentiate children at risk for different developmental trajectories of aggression and rule breaking.

scholarly journals Individual differences in the course of youth depression: The importance of renitence and reversion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Hawrilenko ◽  
Katherine E. Masyn ◽  
Janine Cerutti ◽  
Erin C. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Growth Mixture Modeling ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Youth Depression ◽  
Growth Mixture ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Environmental Events ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Time Frames

AbstractStudies of developmental trajectories of depression are important for understanding its etiology. Existing studies have been limited by short time frames and no studies have explored a key factor: differential patterns of responding to life events. This paper introduces a novel analytic technique, growth mixture modeling with structured residuals, to examine the course of youth depression symptoms in a large, prospective cohort (N=11,641, ages 4-16.5). Age-specific critical points were identified at ages 10 and 13 where depression symptoms spiked for a minority of children. However, most depression risk was due to dynamic responses to environmental events, drawn not from a small pool of persistently depressed children, but a larger pool of children who varied across higher and lower symptom levels.

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