ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1559330
The Impact of Academic Burnout on Academic Achievement: A Moderated Chain Mediation Effect from the Stimulus-Organism-Response Perspective
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- 1School of Information Technology, Guangxi Police College, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Region, China
- 2School of Business Administration, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi, China
- 3School of Public Administration, Guangxi Police College, Nanning, China
- 4School of Mathematical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- 5Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, China
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Objective: With the increasing academic pressure faced by university students, academic burnout has gradually become a critical factor affecting students' learning outcomes, drawing widespread attention in the field of education.Methods: A survey was conducted among 306 Chinese university students using five validated instruments: the Academic Burnout Scale, Learning Satisfaction Scale, Learning Engagement Scale, Academic Achievement Scale, and Educational Values Scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 and PROCESS macro (Model 6 and Model 14), incorporating correlation analysis, regression analysis, mediation and moderated mediation tests via bootstrapping.Results: Academic burnout had a significant negative effect on academic achievement . Both learning satisfaction and learning engagement had significant positive effects on academic achievement and jointly played a chain mediation role between academic burnout and academic achievement. Educational values significantly moderated the effect of learning engagement on academic achievement, as well as the entire chain mediation pathway. Discussion: The results highlight a significant chain mediation effect of learning satisfaction and engagement in the relationship between academic burnout and academic achievement. Moreover, educational values can significantly moderate the relationship between academic burnout and learning achievement. Based on the empirical findings, the study proposes three recommendations for improving 1 Qin et al. The Impact of Learning Burnout on Academic Achievement students' learning achievements: Improve students' learning satisfaction; Strengthen the development of students' learning engagement; Enhance the positive influence of educational values. By addressing academic burnout from the perspectives of learning satisfaction, learning engagement, and educationalvalues, the study aims to improve students' learning achievements and foster collaboration between schools, teachers, and students to create positive conditions for academic development.
Keywords: Academic burnout, Academic Achievement, learning satisfaction, Learning engagement, Educational values
Received: 12 Jan 2025; Accepted: 13 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Qin, Yang, Lin, Ning, Chen, Zhang and Un. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Xiaolong Chen, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, China
Hongfeng Zhang, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, China
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