Resilience, Psychological Distress, and Academic Burnout among Accounting Students*

Smith, Kenneth J.; Emerson, David J.

doi:10.1111/1911-3838.12254

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“…6 This study utilized identical resilience and psychological distress measures as those used in this study. In contrast, Smith and Emerson ( 2021 ), using identical measures, found among a sample of accounting students that resilience only moderated one of the paths between the elements of burnout and psychological distress and that the predictive ability of the model was enhanced with resilience serving as an exogenous predictor rather than a moderator.…”

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Psychological Distress, Burnout, and Business Student Turnover: The Role of Resilience as a Coping Mechanism

2022

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This study’s purpose is to examine whether resilience, conceptualized by Connor and Davidson (2003) as one’s capacity to persevere and rebound under adversity, was a potential mitigating and/or moderating factor in the dynamic between both psychological distress and academic burnout, and student attrition. We concurrently distributed a survey containing a series of psychometric instruments to a convenience sample of 1,119 students pursuing various business majors at four geographically diverse U.S. universities. Via structural equations modeling analysis, we measured the associations between psychological distress, academic burnout, and departure intentions, and investigated whether student resilience levels are associated with lower distress, burnout, and departure intentions levels. The results indicated significant positive associations between psychological distress and each of the elements of academic burnout, and significant positive associations between the academic burnout elements and departure intentions. However, while resilience did not moderate those associations, it did attenuate them through its direct negative associations with both psychological distress and the cynicism and academic inefficacy elements of academic burnout. Based on these findings, we discuss implications for business educators seeking to enhance individual resilience levels as a coping strategy to combat voluntary student turnover, and better prepare students for the demands of the workplace.

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“… 5 Smith and Emerson ( 2021 , pp. 247–248) acknowledge that the relationship between psychological distress and academic burnout may be non-recursive, a phenomenon only testable via a study of longitudinal design.…”

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2022

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“…Prior studies have investigated the association between psychological distress and academic burnout but reached the opposite conclusion. Smith and Emerson (2021) have indicated that academic burnout and its dimensions had effects on psychological distress, whereas other scholars thought that negative emotions worsened academic burnout (Salmela-Aro et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2022). Existing research, however, has primarily focused on college students, and this relationship among junior high school students was not well explored.…”

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Parental burnout and adolescents’ academic burnout: Roles of parental harsh discipline, psychological distress, and gender

Zhang

Wang

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Front. Psychol.

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Parental burnout is an emerging hot issue in discussions about children’s mental health and development. However, little is known about the underlying psychological mechanisms of parental burnout on children’s academic burnout. To fill in this gap, we aim to examine the relationship between parental burnout and adolescents’ academic burnout, as well as the mediating effects of harsh discipline, adolescents’ psychological distress, and the moderating effect of gender. A sample of 871 junior high school students (477 boys and 394 girls) and their primary caregivers from Eastern China participated in this study. The results showed a direct relationship between parental burnout and academic burnout as well as an indirect relationship through the mediating role of psychological distress and the chain-mediating roles of parental harsh discipline and psychological distress. Furthermore, we discovered that fathers’ parental burnout had a stronger effect on children’s psychological distress than mothers. These findings contribute to our understanding of how parental burnout relates to children’s academic burnout and underline the significance of fathers’ parental burnout.

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“…Studies have shown that female students are more affected by academic burnout than male students due to their different psychological states (5). Smith and Emerson (6) reported that psychological distress had significant positive associations with academic burnout in undergraduate students.…”

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The Relationship Between Academic Burnout and Hope for the Future in Medical Students: Mediating Role of the Stress

Aryaei Moghadam,

Jayervand,

Makvandi

2023

J Med Edu

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Background: Academic burnout, in addition to affecting different aspects of the students' personal lives, can have many negative impacts on their academic and family conditions. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the relationships between academic burnout and hope for the future through examining the mediating role of stress in medical students. Methods: The statistical population of this descriptive-correlational study included all students at Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences in 2022. Multistage cluster sampling was used to select 301 students. The research instruments included the Academic Burnout Questionnaire, the Attitudes towards Education and Career Prospects Scale, and Medical Student Stressor Questionnaire. The proposed model was evaluated using structural equation modeling (SEM). Results: The results showed that the direct path from hope for the future to stress was significant (P < 0.001). The indirect path from hope for the future to academic burnout was significant with the mediation of stress (P < 0.001), while the direct path from hope for the future to academic burnout was not significant. Conclusions: Stress mediated the relationship between hope for the future and academic burnout. It was also found that the proposed model had a desirable goodness of fit and may have been considered a major step in identifying the factors responsible for academic burnout in medical students. Given that stress was a central factor in academic burnout, it was suggested that policymakers should appreciate the necessity of providing the stressed students with support from family members and instructors.

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Resilience, Psychological Distress, and Academic Burnout among Accounting Students*

Cited by 17 publications

References 77 publications

Psychological Distress, Burnout, and Business Student Turnover: The Role of Resilience as a Coping Mechanism

Psychological Distress, Burnout, and Business Student Turnover: The Role of Resilience as a Coping Mechanism

Parental burnout and adolescents’ academic burnout: Roles of parental harsh discipline, psychological distress, and gender

The Relationship Between Academic Burnout and Hope for the Future in Medical Students: Mediating Role of the Stress

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