The Effect of Students’ Perception of Teachers’ Emotional Support on School Burnout Dimensions: Longitudinal Findings

Luciano Romano, Giacomo Angelini, Piermarco Consiglio and Caterina Fiorilli
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Luciano Romano: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy
Giacomo Angelini: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy
Piermarco Consiglio: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy
Caterina Fiorilli: Department of Human Sciences, University of Rome LUMSA, 00193 Rome, Italy

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 4, 1-7

Abstract: School burnout is linked to relevant adverse consequences for students’ academic careers. Thus, several authors have focused on the internal and external factors that reduce burnout, highlighting the role of teachers’ support. Nonetheless, few studies addressed how students’ perception of teachers’ emotional support protects them from school maladaptive behaviors. The present study aimed to longitudinally investigate in a final sample of 295 Italian high school students (F = 78.6%; M = 15.78, SD = 1.48) the protective role of students’ perception of teachers’ emotional support dimensions on school burnout across a school year. We expected that teachers’ emotional support dimensions had a significant inverse effect on students’ burnout. We preliminarily investigated the study variables’ associations and whether the mean levels of burnout dimensions increased throughout the school year. Correlation analysis supported the associations among the study variables, and repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) analyses highlighted that the mean levels of school burnout dimensions increased over time. Moreover, hierarchical multiple regression analyses have shown that at the beginning of the school year (T1), the teacher sensitivity dimension significantly and inversely affected emotional exhaustion by the end of the school year (T2). Our findings shed light on the role played by teacher emotional support and give suggestions on which specific facet should have to be improved to shield students from later burnout-related exhaustion.

Keywords: school burnout; high school; students’ perception; teachers’ emotional support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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