Analysis of Relationships among Burnout, Academic Achievement, and Self-regulation

This study examined the relationships among burnout, academic achievement, and self-regulation with two models. The participants were 383 undergraduates with different majors in a university in the western of Turkey. The results showed that academic achievement was negatively associated with three dimensions burnout and was positively associated with self-regulation. The results also confirmed that cynicism fully the effect of emotional exhaustion on academic achievement and reduced academic efficacy; academic partially mediated the effect of cynicism on reduced academic efficacy. In addition, analysis that self-regulation partially mediated the effect of emotional exhaustion on cynicism and fully mediated academic efficacy and academic achievement. These findings suggest that self-regulation skills mediating role relationship between burnout and academic achievement. Implications of these findings are in detail.