High School Students Learning Burnout, Academic Attribution, And Attribution Training Experiment

Learning burnout is a phenomenon of emotional and physical exhaustion, alienation withteachers and other students, low efficacy in studies caused by long heavy academic stress.Learning burnout could cause students a serious of psychological and behavioral disorders, andphysical symptoms. How to reduce the students' learning burnout has an important significancein the context of the education for all-round development. In this study, combined the learningburnout and the academic attributional style,and discussed how to optimize the high schoolstudents' academic attributional style and reduce their levels of learning burnout, based onanalyzing the two research areas of learning burnout and academic attribution. And this will havean important significance in mental health education of high school students.Based the basis of the preceding relative studies, this study designed a system of effectiveprocess for attributional training, and used the mquestionnair method and experimental method.At first, this study surveyed the general characteristics of high school students' learning burnoutand academic attribution, and investigated the relationship between the learning burnout andacademic attribution by using the High School Students' Burnout and High School Students'Academic Attribution Questionnaire. Secondly, selected two homogeneous classes, and dividedthem into the experimental group and the control group. Trained the experimental group by thesystematic orderly attributional training strictly, while did nothing to the control group. In theend, analyzed the differences of the learning burnout and the academic attribution between theexperimental and control groups.The findings were as follows:(1)The differences of the high school students' learning burnout among demographic variablewere: compared with the female high school students, the male high school students had nosignificant difference in the gender variable; there was no significant differences existing in thedimensions of alience to teacher and physical exhaustion between grade2and grade3, whilethere were significant differences existing in the learning burnout and all of its dimensionsbetween all the grades; there were significant differences existing in the learning burnout and itsall dimensions between the urban high school students and the rural high school students; theonly child and the non-only child high school students had significant differences in the learningburnout' total level and the dimensions of reduced learning efficacy and alience to teacher, butnot in the emotional exhaustion and physical exhaustion.(2)The high school students tended to attribute the academic success to the stable causes, andattribute the academic failure to the unstable causes. The attributing mode of high schoolstudents had significant differences in all the demographic variables.(3)All the dimensions of high school students' attribution in academic success but not the state of mind and temporary effort had significant negative correlations with the learning burnout and allits dimensions. All the dimensions of high school students' attributiona academic failure but notthe state of mind in and luck were significantly releated to the learning burnout and all itsdimensions.(4)The high school students' academic success and failure attribution become more positive andrational by attribution training. In the situation of academic success, the students fromexperimental group tended to attribute their success to sustained effort and ability, and theattributions of temporary effort and the difficult of task had decreased significantly; in thesituation of academic failure, they tended to attributed their failure to less effort and bad luck,and the attributions of ability had decreased significantly.(5)The level of the high school students' learning burnout had decreased significantly throughattributional training. The reasonable and orderly attributional training can reduce the level ofhigh school students' learning burnout, and lessen its physical and mental harmfulness to thehigh school students.