Learning Perfectionism and Learning Burnout in a Primary School Student Sample: A Test of a Learning-Stress Mediation Model

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Hongfei Yang1 Jiaying Chen1

Published online: 23 May 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Abstract The relations among learning perfectionism, learning stress and learning burnout were examined among 552 primary school students from grade 3 to 6 with average age of 11.7 years (SD = 1.2; range 915 years). Results of multiple regression analysis indicated that learning stress partially mediated the relations between self-oriented learning perfectionism (SOLP) and three dimensions of learning burnout (i.e., negative emotional state, negative external evaluation and poor teacher-student relationship), and mother-prescribed learning perfectionism and three dimensions of learning burnout (i.e., negative emotional state, negative external evaluation and poor life quality). The results also indicated that learning stress fully mediated the relations between SOLP and poor life quality, and mother-prescribed perfectionism and poor teacher-student relationship. Moreover, father-prescribed learning perfectionism did not predict learning stress and learning burnout. Implications for providing counseling services to primary school students are discussed.

Keywords Learning perfectionism Learning stress

Learning burnout Primary school students

Introduction

Learning burnout (or academic burnout) refers to the feeling of exhaustion in the learning process, which is accompanied by cynical and detached attitudes towards schoolwork, as well as a low sense of achievement (Pines et al. 1981; Schaufeli and Buunk 2003; Yang and Farn 2005). Although learning burnout has been studied in numerous countries (e.g., the United States, Korea, South Africa, and France; Galbraith and Merrill 2012; Lee et al. 2013; Mogan et al. 2014; Walburg 2014, for a review), China may be the only country with recently burgeoning scientic literature on learning burnout owing to the test-oriented education. For example, a keyword search of Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, a Chinese database in January 2015 revealed 558 articles on learning burnout that accumulated beginning 2005 (with only 1 article). Furthermore, numerous learning burnout studies focused on identifying antecedents, including social, family, school, and...