Adolescents’ School Burnout: A Comparative Study between Italy and Switzerland

Gabola, Piera; Meylan, Nicolas; Hascoët, Marine; Stasio, Simona De; Fiorilli, Caterina

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“…When internal and external resources to face stressful events are lacking, students may feel emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed by schoolwork, and inadequate in the face of school challenges [3][4][5]. Findings describe burned-out students as lacking motivation to pursue their goals, showing low interest in the new learning opportunity and a general sense of meaninglessness in classroom activities with a rare sense of community (e.g., [6,7]).…”

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An Italian Adaptation of the Burnout Assessment Tool-Core Symptoms (BAT-C) for Students

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Burnout is psychological, physical, and emotional suffering that may affect students with low or inadequate resources to face stressful events at school. Although the existing instruments are used worldwide to assess school burnout risk, they show several flaws and mainly focus on the emotional facets of the syndrome. No previous studies have developed a multi-component tool to reveal students’ burnout by simultaneously analyzing cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems. The central core of the current study is to adapt the Burnout Assessment Tool-Core symptoms (BAT-C; Schaufeli et al., 2020), comprising four subscales, exhaustion, mental distance, cognitive impairment, and emotional impairment, for a sample of Italian students. The factor structure, the reliability, and the validity of the scale are investigated. The participants are 745 middle school students (male, 52.2%; aged 9–13, M = 11.84, and SD = 1.21). Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the best fit of the second-order model (four first-order factors and one second-order factor). Specifically, four factors were loaded onto a main high-order factor, which constitutes the BAT-C. Our findings support the Italian adaptation of the BAT-C for students’ samples as a valid instrument for measuring the core symptoms of school burnout.

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“…Drugs and substance abuse (Ondigo, Birech & Gakuru, 2019), student alienation (Mau,1989), bullying (Salmon, James & Smith, 1998), school violence (Henry, 2000) are some of them. School burnout is one of these negative situations mentionedin the relevant literature (Gabola et al 2021). It is understood that school burnout should not be ignored when its results are taken into consideration.…”

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Psycho-Educational Effect of Motivational Interviewing on School Burnout

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Motivational interviewing School burnout Undesirable behaviours Psycho-education program Interventions at schoolsSchool burnout is an important problem which should be understood in terms of the consequences it causes in the school environment. During school burnout cases, undesirable behaviors may be exhibited. For this reason, it is very important to understand school burnout to recognize and to intervene before causing negative results. The aim of this study is to reduce students' school burnout using the motivational interviewing approach. In this study, a psycho-education program which based on the basic principles of motivational interviewing was developed and applied to middle school 6 th and 7 th grade students. This study is an experimental study with pretest posttest follow-up test. According to the results of the post-test conducted after psycho-education applications, it was seen that this program decreased significantly students' school burnout levels. In the follow-up test conducted later, it was observed that the decrease in the levels of school burnout showed stability. Based on these results, it can be said that motivational interviewing based psycho-education al interventions will be beneficial for students experiencing school burnout.

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“…Student burnout is a health issue that has been widely investigated in recent decades. It is a study-related syndrome characterized by a maladaptive emotional and physiological response to long-term exposure to stressful events affecting high school students [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ] and university students (e.g., [ 7 ]). Schaufeli et al [ 7 ] stated that “burnout among students refers to feeling exhausted because of study demands, having a cynical and detached attitude toward one’s study, and feeling incompetent as a student” (p. 465).…”

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Students’ Burnout at University: The Role of Gender and Worker Status

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Students’ burnout has been widely investigated in recent decades, mainly showing a higher risk for female students across academic levels. To our knowledge, few studies have investigated whether employed students experience higher academic burnout risks. In this regard, previous findings have shown mixed results. The current study investigated the differences in burnout experience based on students’ gender and worker status. We expected to find differences among study groups in their burnout levels. The participants were 494 Italian university students (49.6% female students; 49.4% working students) who completed the short version of the Burnout Assessment Tool Core dimensions (BAT-C). Firstly, we investigated the BAT-C measurement invariance across gender and worker status subgroups. Secondly, a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) showed significant gender differences in burnout levels. Specifically, female students showed higher levels of exhaustion, cognitive impairment, and emotional impairment than male students. Nevertheless, no interactive effects between gender and worker status were observed in the current sample. To sum up, gender is a key factor for understanding several BAT symptoms, and it should be considered by academic staff interested in preventing burnout at university and its dropout consequences.

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Adolescents’ School Burnout: A Comparative Study between Italy and Switzerland

Cited by 16 publications

References 46 publications

An Italian Adaptation of the Burnout Assessment Tool-Core Symptoms (BAT-C) for Students

An Italian Adaptation of the Burnout Assessment Tool-Core Symptoms (BAT-C) for Students

Psycho-Educational Effect of Motivational Interviewing on School Burnout

Students’ Burnout at University: The Role of Gender and Worker Status

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