Abstract
Agricultural higher education is one of the important context in which students may be face with educational burnout during their studies due to their conditions, such as the nature of the field of study, lack of graduates' employment, and reduction in motivation. This research aimed to investigate the factors underpinning the student's academic burnout of Iranian agricultural higher education system. The research was a kind of descriptive-correlational that has done through a survey. The statistical population composed of all students at all educational levels in agricultural faculties of the Iranian state-run universities (N = 236,973). Accordingly, 386 people were selected using the Krejcie and Morgan's tables and stratified random sampling method with proportional to size. A researcher-made questionnaire with 104 questions arranged in six parts used for data collection. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed by calculating the Cronbach's alpha, average variance extracted (AVE) and composite reliability (CR). According to the results, the variables of high workload and achievement motivation were the most influential factors on academic burnout, respectively. This study's results can be a useful step for policymakers and planners in the agricultural higher education system to prevent student's academic burnout and remove obstacles to dynamic academic achievement.
Highlights
Enhancing quality of an educational system depends on quality of its components
Since parameters with t values greater than 1.96 are statistically significant [36], the results show that the indicators of the latent variables have an acceptable adaptation to the factor structure and theoretical basis of the research
It is mentioned that studying the relationship between academic burnout and other related variables is suggested to reach a wider attention
Summary
Enhancing quality of an educational system depends on quality of its components. Students play a key role in any educational system (as educational system inputs) to meet the goals of the system [1]. Most countries spend a significant amount of their national income on education, but the students entering the higher education system where they supposed to show a proper academic motivation and achievement [1] may not mostly have the required productivity and may suffer from academic burnout for many reasons. Burnout is a state of mental and emotional exhaustion contributed by the chronic stress syndrome such as role-bearing, pressure and time restraints, and lack of required resources for fulfilling tasks and duties [2]. Academic burnout signals the decline of an individual's aptitude to adjust himself/herself to the stressful factors of education [3]. Academic burnout includes three areas of academic fatigue, academic cynicism, and academic inefficacy. It makes students feel tired of doing homework and studying. Academic burnout leads to the loss of students' suitable academic performance and aggravates their concerns about committing mistakes in homework [4]
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