The Investigation Of The Relationship Among Learning Burnout, Self-esteem And Coping Style Of Middle School Students

Burnout is initially a group of negative symptoms when individuals face long-term emotional and interpersonal tensions during the work, such as emotional exhaustion, physical fatigue, reducing the extent of work involved, etc. In the past few decades, the research of burnout mostly concentrated in the areas of job burnout, particularly for those services industry practitioners. With the in-depth research in this area, some scholars have put forward that students in school also have a sense of burnout, thus begins a study of learning burnout. While in our country, research about learing burnout has just begun, particularly with regard to the learning burnout of middle school students. Study of the learning burnout of middle school students is not only benificial to enriching the theoretical research, will also help us learn to understand the development characteristics of learning burnout of middle school students and the factors affecting them. Therefore, it provides empirical basis for mitigating and preventing learnig burout and improving the learning efficiency.This thesis holds the view of "theoretical analysis, tools, measure, status quo, effecting factors". Based on the document analysis, the thesis edits "Learning Burnout Questionnaire for Middle School Students" in order to investigate the development characteristics of learning burnout of middle school students, and this thesis also explores the relationship among self-esteem, coping style and learning burnout of middle school students. This thesis has the following proposals:(1) Burnout is that because of long-term academic pressure and immoderate learning burden, students have emotional and physical exhaust, and they have a sense of alienation and isolation towards teachers, peers and learning environment, and there is also the phenomenon of low personal accomplishment. "Learning Burnout Questionnaire for Middle School Students" Edited in this thesis consists of low personal accomplishment, exhaust and alienation. The validity and reliability of this questionnaire are also well demonstrated.(2) There does exists learning burnout among middle school students. On the whole, learning burnout's level of middle school students has significant gender, grade and academic performance differences. Burnout level of high school students has a significant difference between arts and science.(3) Different levels of self-esteem of students have significant differences between learning burnout as a whole and its' aspects. That is, the higher the level of self-esteem, the less learning burout that the subjects have; the lower the level of self-esteem, the more learning burout that the subjects have.(4) Different levels of coping style of middle school students have significant differences in learning burnout. The level of the learning burout of students having the highly-mature coping style (including solving the problem and seeking help) is significantly lower than students having the weakly-mature coping style. The level of the learning burnout of students having the weakly-mature coping style (including self-abuse, fantasy, retreat and rationalizing) is significantly higher than students haveing the highly-mature coping style.(5) There is a significant correlation among learning burnout, self-esteem and coping style of middle school students. Self-esteem plays an intermediary role between coping style and learning burnout.The higher level of self-esteem of subjects, the more inclined to adopt a mature coping style, the lower the level of learning burnout one has. The lower level of self-esteem of subjects, the more inclined to adopt a immature coping style, the higher the level of learning burnout one has.