The Study of Academic Burnout in Students with High and Low Level Of Self-Efficacy

The purpose of this research was to study the academic burnout in university students with high-low level of self-efficacy. Therefore, 120 students in AllameTabatabei University completed academic burnout and self-efficacy questionnaires. Those students, whose scores were one standard deviation higher than the mean, had high self-efficacy but one standard deviation lower than the mean had low self-efficacy. Data was analyzed by T-test. The results showed there are negative relationships among self-efficacy, academic burnout variables and its components academic exhaustion, academic uninterested and academic inefficacy). (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).