Psychological Analysis among Goal Orientation, Emotional Intelligence and Academic Burnout in Middle School Students

Pablo Usán Supervía, Carlos Salavera Bordás and Víctor Murillo Lorente
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Pablo Usán Supervía: Departament of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences and Education, University of Zaragoza, Valentín Carderera nº4, 22003 Huesca, Spain
Carlos Salavera Bordás: Departament of Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna nº12, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Víctor Murillo Lorente: Departament of Physiatry and Nursing, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Plaza Universidad nº3, 22002 Huesca, Spain

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 21, 1-12

Abstract: During schooling, students can undergo, for more or less long periods of time, different contextual settings that can negatively affect their personal and academic development, leading them not to meet their academic goals. The main objective of this research responds to examine the relationships between the constructs of goal orientations, emotional intelligence, and burnout in students. Method: This research comprised 2896 students from 15 Spanish high schools with ages between 12 and 18 years distributed across male (N = 1614; 55.73%) and female (N = 1282; 44.26%) genders. The measurements were made through Perception of Success Questionnaire (POSQ), the Trait Meta Mood Scale (TMMS-24) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS). Results: Results showed links between task orientation, high emotional intelligence levels, and adaptive behaviors and between ego orientation, academic burnout and less adaptive behavior. Similarly, it was shown that emotional intelligence can be used to predict goal-oriented behaviors. Conclusion: It is argued that the promotion of task orientation among secondary school students can lead to the adoption of adaptive behaviors and this, in turn, improve the development of students toward academic and personal settings.

Keywords: adolescents; students; goal orientation; emotional intelligence; burnout (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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