What Types of Educational Practices Impact School Burnout Levels in Adolescents?

Nicolas Meylan, Joël Meylan, Mercedes Rodriguez, Patrick Bonvin and Eric Tardif
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Nicolas Meylan: UER Développement de l’enfant à l’adulte University of Teacher Education, HEP Vaud, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland
Joël Meylan: UER Développement de l’enfant à l’adulte University of Teacher Education, HEP Vaud, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland
Mercedes Rodriguez: UER Développement de l’enfant à l’adulte University of Teacher Education, HEP Vaud, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland
Patrick Bonvin: UER Développement de l’enfant à l’adulte University of Teacher Education, HEP Vaud, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland
Eric Tardif: UER Développement de l’enfant à l’adulte University of Teacher Education, HEP Vaud, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: This study explores the relationship between educational practices perceived by high school students and their level of burnout, as defined by emotional exhaustion, cynicism and inadequacy. A total of 287 adolescents (146 girls) aged between 14 and 19 years old ( M = 16.08, SD = 1.01) and recruited from a public high school in French-speaking Switzerland completed a questionnaire regarding perceived educational practices and school burnout. Results from path analysis showed that the three dimensions of burnout were negatively associated with certain teacher- and school-related educational practices. More precisely, support for struggling students (ß = −0.24, p < 0.001) as well as teaching time (ß = −0.16, p < 0.05) were predictors of exhaustion ( R 2 = 0.27). Teachers’ instructional behavior (ß = −0.22, p < 0.01) and teacher motivation (ß = −0.31, p < 0.001) were predictors of cynicism ( R 2 = 0.20) and application of rules (ß = −0.21, p < 0.01) predicted inadequacy ( R 2 = 0.09). These educational practices should be of particular interest when it comes to strengthening the protective role of schools and teachers against school burnout in adolescents.

Keywords: educational practices; school burnout; adolescents; teachers (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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