ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1558159
This article is part of the Research TopicEmotional Intelligence in Educational Psychology: Enhancing Learning and DevelopmentView all 13 articles
The Influence of Teacher Leadership on Students'Academic Burnout in China: Potential Multiple Mediating Effects of Meeting Basic Psychological Needs
Provisionally accepted
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Teacher leadership has an important influence on students' academic burnout. Based on the theory of self-determination, this paper constructs an analytical framework of "external environmental resources-internal psychological needs satisfaction" to reduce students' academic burnout. Taking senior high school students in China as samples, it explores the potential effect and mechanism of China teachers' leadership on students'academic burnout. The results show that teacher leadership can not only directly and negatively affect students' academic burnout, but also further negatively affect academic burnout through the parallel mediation of learning autonomy, self-efficacy and teacher-student relationship. Also, the teachers' teaching leadership is an important factor affecting students' academic burnout, and the three psychological needs -autonomy, competence and relationship -have independent functional values on students' academic burnout. Therefore, constructing a good teacher's teaching leadership system can meet students' psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relationship, thus helping to reduce students' academic burnout.
Keywords: Teacher leadership, Academic burnout, Basic psychological needs, Self-determined motivation, multiple mediating effects
Received: 09 Jan 2025; Accepted: 05 Aug 2025.
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* Correspondence: Anqi Fang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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