Latent profile analysis of academic burnout among primary and middle school students in Wuxi City
10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2024328
- VernacularTitle:无锡市中小学生学习倦怠的潜在剖面分析
- Author:
XIONG Chang, BAO Yebo, WANG Jihong, LI Zhijuan, QIAN Hongdan
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Author Information
1. Department of School and Food Hygiene, Wuxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention/the Affiliated Wuxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi (214023) , Jiangsu Province, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Learning;
Fatigue;
Mental health;
Regression analysis;
Students
- From:
Chinese Journal of School Health
2024;45(11):1589-1593
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To understand the current situation of academic burnout among primary and middle school students and to explore its associated factors, so as to provide a scientific guidance and preventing and amelioration academic burnout among primary and middle school students.
Methods:Between September and October 2023, a total of 10 474 primary and middle school students residing in Wuxi City participated in a questionnaire survey and physical examination conducted through stratified cluster random sampling. Latent profile analysis was used to classify academic burnout among primary and middle school students. Furthermore, differences in the types of academic burnout among children and adolescents with varying characteristics were examined using the Chi square test. Additionally, multinomial Logistic regression analysis was utilized to identify the associated factors for academic burnout.
Results:The academic burnout of primary and middle school students was divided into 4 categories:no/light academic burnout group(43.6%),physical and mental exhaustion group (32.9%), low achievement group(15.0%), high physical and mental exhaustion/high academic burnout group(8.5%). Middle and high school students, boys, not living with parents, smoking, daily screen time ≥2 hours, suffering from campus bullying, sometimes/often subjected to cyber attacks, abused by parents were more likely to have high physical and mental exhaustion/high academic alienation among primary and middle school students ( OR=1.70, 1.42, 1.56, 1.56, 2.31, 1.48, 2.94, 3.03, 5.94, 2.08, P <0.01).
Conclusions:The phenomenon of academic burnout among primary and middle school students is prominent. And targeted intervention measures shoould be actively taken to prevent and reduce the occurrence of academic burnout among primary and middle school students.
