Impact of Student’s Burnout on Academic Performance/Achievement

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine that how different factors cause the academic burnout in students and affect their academic performance/CGPAs. The study was conducted on the population of all the master students of Islamia University Bahawalpur with the sample size of 361 respondents to analyze the influence of academic burnout factors i.e. emotional exhaustion, cynicism and academic inefficacy on the CGPAs of master students. For this purpose, different techniques were used in this study like Cronbach’s Alpha, Multicollinearity, correlation and regression analysis with the help of SPSS 16. The independent variable was ‘academic burnout’ with 3 factors i.e. emotional exhaustion, cynicism and academic inefficacy and the dependent variable was student’s ‘academic performance’ that was measured by cumulative grade point averages (CGPAs). The study ensures that there is a significant and negative relationship of emotional exhaustion and cynicism with student’s performance. But an insignificant and negative relationship between academic inefficacy and performance of students. The findings suggest that increase in the level of burnout in students decrease the student’s learning and performance. It affects poorly on the health of students as well. It enables us to analyze the relationship that exist between academic burnout and student’s academic grades. This research significantly enriches the knowledge about burnout and provides significant results that can be used by other researchers, practioners and scholars.