Explaining the Phenomenon of Students' Academic Burnout based on the Role of Academic Procrastination and Parents’ Perfectionism (Case Study of High School Students of Qom City)

Abstract

Purpose: Aacademic burnout in students causes a decline in other academic performances. Therefore, the present study aimed to explaining the phenomenon of students’ academic burnout based on the role of academic procrastination and parents’ perfectionism.Methodology: This research was a descriptive from type of correlation. The research population was all male and female students in the first and second high school in Qom city in the academic years of 2021-2022, which based on the Krejcie and Morgan table 384 people of them were selected with using multi-stage cluster sampling method. The instruments of the present study were included questionnaires on academic burnout (Maslach & Jackson, 1981), academic procrastination (Solomon and Rothblum, 1984) and perfectionism (Frost et al., 1990), and the obtained data were analyzed with using Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with a stepwise model in SPSS software.Findings: The findings of the present study showed that students' academic procrastination and parents' perfectionism had a positive and significant correlation with high school students' academic burnout (P<0.001). Also, students' academic procrastination and parents' perfectionism were able to explain 12% of the changes in students' academic burnout, which the share of academic procrastination was higher than perfectionism (P<0.001).Conclusion: Considering the effective role of students' academic procrastination and parents' perfectionism in explaining academic burnout in high school students, planning is essential to reduce their academic burnout by reducing students' academic procrastination and parents' perfectionism.