South Asian Context Research Articles

Does emotional stability mediates the relationship between self-disclosure, personality integration, and social adjustment?

The present study explores the relationship between self-disclosure, personality integration, and social adjustment. The study further investigates whether emotional stability acts as a mediator between the said relationships. Capitalisation theory has been used as the supporting theoretical lens to examine the proposed relationship. This research uses a paper and pencil based on questionnaire survey of 290 employees' of public and private sector organisations. Multiple hierarchical regression analysis was employed to analyse the data. The results reveal that the self-disclosure is positively associated with personality integration and social adjustment. The results further demonstrate that the emotional stability acts as a partial mediator between self-disclosure and social adjustment. The results also show that the emotional stability does not mediate the relationship between the self-disclosure and personality integration. This is the first study to test these associations, especially in a South Asian context, thus making a unique contribution to existing body of literature.

Daša DrndićDoppelgänger

Tom Lanoye Speechless Trans. Paul Vincent World Editions Flemish author Tom Lanoye’s tragicomic novel is imbued from the start with heartfelt humor and unflinching emotional honesty. A hybrid work of autobiography, testimonial, and fiction , Speechless allows Lanoye’s exquisite sensitivity to shine, capitalizing on his dexterous poetic instincts to colorfully depict the struggle of overcoming personal tragedy and reconciling oneself to the exploration and acceptance of sexuality. Claudio Magris Snapshots Trans. Anne Milano Appel Yale University Press A collection of brief political, societal, and cultural reflections by internationally acclaimed author Claudio Magris, this gathering spans from 1999 to 2013 and offers witty analysis and humorous interpretations of a full spectrum of subjects. Magris’s unique perspective blends the personal and the universal into a rich spectrum of intensely human experiences. Nota Bene God, Ilaiah Shepherd’s autobiography, From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual closes the circle. It seems to me that his entire oeuvre coheres as a single piece, as they have developed and matured in every following work. Hence, My Memoirs serves as a culmination of his writings and is a must-read. His writings, heavily experiential, narrate the trauma of a lower-caste individual growing up in independent India, which is moving toward Hindu nationalism at each step. He sees danger in the hegemony of Brahmins and other twice-born upper castes that dominates the discourse on the nation. Though, as a political scientist , Ilaiah Shepherd’s observations are based in empirical fact, he still looks with agony and anger at the suffering of his fellow caste members, who are 80 percent of India’s population and ruled by the upper castes. His words hit hard while reading, for the lower castes as well for the upper castes. Ilaiah Shepherd underscores that none of the lower-caste leaders and intellectuals have ever written autobiographies, including Bhimrao Ambedkar and Mahatma Phule. With his memoir he intends to send a wider message of self-respect, emancipation , and dignity. Ilaiah Shepherd declares writing to be the only medium that can change the lower castes’ condition in India. Beginning the book with the question “Is Ilaiah an Unworthy Name?” he enables the reader to explore the epistemological violence visited upon the lower castes and presents a counternarrative to Gandhi’s vegetarian India. The book is a valuable political, social, and anthropological document for understanding the caste system in India. Ilaiah Shepherd participated in the UN conference against racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia in Durban in 2001, and a chapter in the book explains his observation of casteism among Indians abroad. His take on caste and class is worth reading, as the former takes preeminence in the South Asian context. For those who want to understand India from below and beyond Gandhi, yoga, and Bollywood, From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual is an indispensable resource. Subhas Yadav University of Hyderabad, India Daša Drndić Doppelgänger Trans. S. D. Curtis & Celia Hawkesworth. London. Istros Books. 2018. 159 pages. Comprising “Artur and Isabella” and “Pupi,” this slim volume distills Daša Drndić’s trademark themes into a bleak but haunting requiem for the soul’s death in the wake of postmodernity. In these subtly linked stories, memory bleeds past into present as three clear-eyed protagonists, distanced from their truest selves, approach the void. On New Year’s Eve in 1999, in a dull Croatian town, elderly strangers Artur and Isabella meet, talk, and have sex, evoking painful images of former lives. In Belgrade, Croat Printz, fifty, with an alter ego named Pupi (a detested childhood nickname), spirals downward after cremating his cancer-ridden mother. Strategically braided narrative strategies —stream of consciousness, dialogue, and a seemingly omniscient voice—produce a Kafkaesque humor that highlights the sterility of this brave new world. When WORLDLIT.ORG 95 the voice notes that the couple complement each other, Artur says, “We complement each other.” When it announces, “The rhinos are outside,” Printz thinks, “It’s good that the rhinos are outside.” The voice becomes their shadow. Twentieth-century history has marked these lives. Isabella talks to her thirty-six garden gnomes, one for each family member lost to the Holocaust. Printz’s mother’s silver was...

Decolonizing Dialectics by George Ciccariello-Maher

Reviewed by: Decolonizing Dialectics by George Ciccariello-Maher Ben Etherington Decolonizing Dialectics By George Ciccariello-Maher. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. At heart, George Ciccariello-Maher's Decolonizing Dialectics is a study of political identity. The three thinkers on whom he focuses each confront the conundrum of oppressed groups that fail to recognise their political agency, or are stymied in doing so. Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon and Enrique Dussel each conduct theoretical analyses and fashion concepts that enable these groups better to recognise themselves and their situations and so constitute themselves as radically oppositional political forces. Ciccariello-Maher begins with Sorel. Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sorel contended that the European working class could not wait for objective conditions to "ripen" to the point at which their deepening immiseration would inevitably lead them to act. Their identity as a class "for itself," he argues, needs to be consciously instantiated through acts of mythologizing violence against their oppressors. For Fanon, similarly, racialised colonial subjects are not in a position to sign up to a vision of political struggle as a reciprocal structure of recognition and interdependency when colonisation had denied their humanity. They first need to overcome this ontological denial and, in so doing, forge the basis for a positive political grouping. Again, this requires constituting acts of violence. Turning to Dussel, Ciccariello-Maher argues that the former's reading of Levinas on alterity gives him the basis for a politics that is oriented to that which was historically external to the coloniser's ontological and epistemological regimes. Rather than conduct politics on the basis of a one-dimensionally conceived "historical subject" (129), whether that be a subject determined by race, gender, class, Dussel conceptualises the "pueblo" as a group fused by their various exclusions. The "pueblo" is, thus, an "identity of identities" (147). Ciccariello-Maher finishes his study by discussing Chavismo in Venezuela as an example of a "Pueblo" constituting itself and successfully capturing state power. This is a study for our times, attempting in political theory what intersectional activists have been doing in practice: grafting the identity politics of the 1980s and 90s with the re-emergence of first-world socialist politics in the wake of the global financial crisis. The challenge for Ciccariello-Maher, and others who share his aspirations, is to conceptualise an "identity of identities" that is sufficiently concrete for those who act on its behalf. Are these simply rainbow coalitions that form in response to particular issues only to dissolve, or can these alliances be turned into formal groupings that pursue lasting programs? As an argument against a certain kind of stodgy dialectical materialism, Ciccariello-Maher's thesis rests on two connected claims: i) that any dialectical political theory premised on mutual recognition and dependence between classes will be ineffective where one party is treated as "sub-ontological"; ii) that such relations of non-reciprocity are endemic to the colonial situation and its aftermath. This explains the title, which promises to "decolonize" the Hegelian-Marxian tradition by critiquing the assumption that all politics is one or another manifestation of the dialectic of capital and labour. Key for Ciccariello-Maher is the notion that the dialectic of oppressor and oppressed frequently needs to be "jumpstarted" by identity-based political acts. Once jumpstarted, though, the dialectical motion seems to behave in the same manner as that dynamic negation of antitheses given an ideal account by Hegel. The philosophical presuppositions of dialectics are not really interrogated by Ciccariello-Maher, let alone "decolonized." Ciccariello-Maher takes from Fanon in particular the notion that decolonial politics continually confronts the problem of ontological denial. Is this a pattern that extends beyond the thinkers that this study considers? For instance, do the ideas of the dependency school of economic theory, which saw itself as opposing neo-colonialism, in some way respond to the problem of ontological denial? Or does non-reciprocity in meta-geopolitical relations obey a different logic? In the South Asian context, does Gandhi's program of satyagraha, built as it was on the strong assertion of precolonial Indian identity, obey a decolonised dialectic more so than that of a rationalist communist like M.N...

The Influence of the Weimar Constitution on the Common Law World

It is commonly thought that the Weimar Constitution had little influence in the common law world. This article traces the translation of the Weimar Constitution in the Irish context, and demonstrates its importance in the drafting of the Irish Free State Constitution of 1922 and the Irish Constitution of 1937. It specifically looks at the way in which translation occurred in relation to the Directive Principles of Social Policy. The translation of the Irish Constitution into the South Asian context is analysed, with a particular focus on India.

The Expansionist View of Systematic Testimonial Injustice

In this paper, I offer an expansionist view of the Frickerian central case of testimonial injustice, citing examples from the South Asian context. To defend this expansionist position, I provide an argument in three parts. First, I argue that credibility deficit and credibility excess are entangled with each other in such a way that often, one produces the other. Secondly, I contend that we should not say that systematic testimonial injustice is a consequence of credibility deficit only because of the entanglement between them. I also contend that for being the central case of testimonial injustice, identity prejudice should not be necessarily negative; it can be positive as well. Propounding a twofold condition of the status of a knower, the last part claims that testimonial injustice occurs when one of the two conditions remains unmet.

The making of modernity: violence and social revolution in the South Asian context

O presente artigo examina a inter-relação entre violência e modernidade no contexto do sul da Ásia. Uma revolução social não é nem espontânea nem é um projeto cuidadosamente planejado, com uma linha do tempo preparada com antecedência, mantendo a situação política em mente. Existem condições objetivas a serem atendidas para qualquer transformação social em larga escala; além dessas condições, o papel da intervenção humana deve ser enfatizado para que a mudança seja realizada. O argumento central do artigo é que, no contexto da pobreza em massa, torna-se imperativo que os pobres se unam e se revoltem com a intenção de adquirir ganhos materiais resultantes do crescimento econômico. Até que ponto as vítimas das sociedades de classe sentem a necessidade de se revoltar contra seus opressores é uma questão em aberto. O fato, no entanto, é que existe um potencial de revolução incorporado à natureza da opressão. Onde os pobres são a grande maioria, há uma possibilidade real de que uma faísca seja suficiente para criar uma reação em cadeia que leve a mudanças ao longo de vários níveis. É importante examinar situações aparentemente não relacionadas em que um grupo de pessoas que lutam por uma causa imediata seja capaz de defender suas idéias através de lutas organizadas. O artigo examina a região do sul da Ásia, onde as contradições coloniais estão entrelaçadas com as desigualdades estruturais, a fim de entender o que os pobres fazem no processo de se revoltar contra uma condição desigual; como eles são capazes de se modernizar através do uso da violência que está paradoxalmente emergindo como resultado de uma modernidade desequilibrada

Use of Large Scale Assessment Finding in South Asia: An Experience of Nepal

This paper tries to present results from a systematic review of literature that reviewed the large-scale assessments finding in the South Asian context especially focusing Nepal. The main objective of the LEAP programme is to reform the quality of learning in the Asia-Pacific region by developing capacity of the Member States to collect, analyze and utilize international and national assessment data identifying learning enablers. The review has identified the high order skills overshadowed by rote learning. It has also employed Item Response Theory (IRT) making assessments comparable and connected with the previous levels. International Assessments such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) collected vast amounts of data on schools, students and households. The use of education-related “big data” for evidence-based policy making is limited, partly due to insufficient institutional capacity of countries to analyze such data and link results with policies.

Indigenous and postcolonial sociology in South Asia: challenges and possibilities

This paper examines the critical debates and discussions on the Eurocentric nature of sociology in its origin, diffusion, dominance and practice on the one hand and counter discourses that have emerged from disparate groups of sociologists from different parts of the world, on the other. In the process, this paper explores the unequal nature of global knowledge discourse and its impact on the sociology debates and practice in the global periphery with a focus on South Asia. The work of several sociologists who have contributed to the discourses on postcolonial theory and sociology, alternative, indigenous and pluralist sociology, are reviewed with a view to highlighting the predicament of conventional metropolitan sociology as it is practised in the colonised periphery. Ideas for a fresh sociological imagination consonant with indigenous intellectual traditions in South Asia are discussed along with the need to retool methodology. Usefulness of new approaches such as relational and connected sociologies and Southern Theory are discussed. Several approaches and strategies that sociologists in the region can utilise in formulating a knowledge field that is integral with the needs of the people and consonant with their own intellectual or knowledge traditions are also surveyed. The need to go beyond essentialist binaries constructed by imperial/colonial sociology is emphasised along with the need for forming epistemic communities in centres of learning with a view to examine emerging proposals from critical sociologists for a new sociology imagination rooted in the South Asian context.

Stagnant Rivers: Transboundary Water Security in South and Southeast Asia

Transboundary rivers are increasingly difficult to govern and often involve issues of national security, territoriality, and competition. In developing countries, the management and governance of these rivers is dominated by a particular decision making group, often comprised of politicians, bureaucrats, and engineers. These groups perpetrate a technocratic paradigm towards the management of transboundary water, with limited genuine international cooperation. The transboundary water situation in South and Southeast Asia is becoming increasingly fraught as the geopolitical context is changing due to China’s increased involvement in regional issues and climate change. With over 780 million people dependent on these rivers, their governance is vital to regional and international stability. Yet, the technocratic management of transboundary rivers persists and is likely to become increasingly unsustainable and inequitable. A discourse-based approach is applied to consider transboundary water governance in the shifting South and Southeast Asian context. The result is an alternative perspective of why governance approaches on transboundary rivers have resisted meaningful reform.

Cultivating employees' communal relationship and organizational citizenship behavior through authentic leadership: studying the influence of procedural justice.

BackgroundLeaders play vital role in organization to accomplish organizational goals and establish healthy working environment. This study addresses the effect of authentic leadership on employees’ communal relationship and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). In addition, this research also examines how procedural justice augments the effect of authentic leadership on both aforementioned employees’ behavioral outcomes.Materials and methodsUsing a cross-sectional design, data were collected from 425 employees working in banking sector of Pakistan. It was hypothesized that authentic leadership would positively predict employees’ communal relationship and OCB. Furthermore, we also assumed that procedural justice will strengthen the relationship between authentic leadership, both behavioral outcomes, that is, employees’ communal relationship and OCB.ResultsAnalyses reveal that authentic leadership positively predicts employees’ communal relationship and OCB. In addition, procedural justice was found to positively moderate the effect of authentic leadership on employees’ communal relationship and OCB.ConclusionTo our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the relationships among authentic leadership, procedural justice, communal relationship, and OCBs in the South Asian context. This is the first study to report the moderating role of procedural justice in the relationship between authentic leadership and communal relationship and OCB. The practical implications of study findings and direction for future research are discussed.

Challenges in Accessing Health Care for People with Disability in the South Asian Context: A Review.

South Asia is a unique geopolitical region covering 3.4% of the world’s surface area and supporting 25% of the world’s population (1.75 billion). Available evidence from South Asia shows variable estimates of the magnitude of disability. The projected magnitude depends on whether an impairment focus is highlighted (approximately 1.6–2.1%) or functionality is given precedence (3.6–15.6%). People with disability (PWD) face significant challenges to accessing health care in the region. Studies show that adults with disability reported a four times higher incidence of a serious health problem in a year’s recall period. Evidence shows a significantly higher rate (17.8%) of hospitalization among PWD compared to others (5%). Chronic conditions like diabetes were also significantly higher. Women with disability had significantly more concerns on reproductive health issues. Studies from the South Asia region reveal that not only did PWD have a higher load of adverse health outcomes but they also faced significantly more barriers in accessing health services.

Sexual Practices and Sexual Health Among Three Generations of Men in Bangladesh: Exploring Gender- and Sexuality-Assemblages

Men’s self-understandings, identities and sexual practices vary widely, being influenced by age, social generation and historical and cultural factors. Despite this, only a few studies have explored the implications of men’s identities and sexual practices for sexual health from a social generational perspective, and none from within a South Asian context. To address this gap, this paper examines how men’s sexual practices vary by social generation in Bangladesh. Semi-structured interviews were used to elicit responses from 34 men belonging to three different social generations and living in three Bangladeshi cities. Of them, 10 men belonged to an older social generation, 11 belonged to a middle generation and the rest belonged to a younger social generation. Using sexuality-assemblage theory, this paper explores generational similarities and differences in sexual practices, and associated implications for sexual health. It suggests that the sexual practices of each social generation produced generation-specific sexual health risks and the possibilities of sexual pleasure.

Fitness for Modernity? The YMCA and physical-education schemes in late-colonial South Asia (circa1900–40)

AbstractFocusing particularly on the Madras College of Physical Education opened in 1919, this article reconstructs the role of the United States of America-dominated Indian Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in the spread of physical-education schemes in South Asia between the beginning of the century and the outbreak of the Second World War. American YMCA secretaries stressed the scientific, liberal, and egalitarian character of their ‘physical programme’ aiming at the training of responsible and self-controlled citizens and therefore supposedly offering an alternative to British imperial sports. The study demonstrates that the Y indeed exercised a considerable influence by acting as adviser to provincial and ‘princely’ governments as well as through the graduates of the Madras College of Physical Education (MCPE), many of whom became physical directors in educational institutions in India, Burma, Ceylon and other Asian countries. At the same time, it also makes clear that North American models could not be transplanted in a simple or straightforward manner to South Asian contexts. For one, in spite of its representation as a ‘school for democracy’, the Y's supposedly inclusive and emancipatory discourses and practices of physical fitness remained over-determined by the powerful influences of the colonial discourse of race, and the programme of the Indian Y continued to be rife with the imperial tropes ofsomatic Orientalismpredicated on the idea of fundamental difference between Westerners and South Asians. Likewise, the Y's sports mission turned out to be lessAmericanthan its advocates had hoped: ‘sportified’ versions of local games and physical exercises played an ever-increasing role in the numerous institutions of the Y in South Asia, leading eventually to a thorough ‘pidginization’ of its fitness regime.

Investigation of L2 Motivational Self System : A Comparative Study of Undergraduates from Displaced and Resettled Regions in Sri Lanka

This study investigates the motivation prole of the L2 undergraduates in the disadvantageous communities in Sri Lanka based on L2 Motivational Self System. Undergraduates from rural and war aected (resettled) areas were considered as disadvantageous learners due to the lack of human and physical resources for their learning.The large scale questionnaire study was conducted among 918 Sri Lankan public university science undergraduates. They were non-English major students who voluntarily participated for the questionnaire survey. The collected data were analysed by using the Structural Equation Modelling and models were developed to emphasise the key motivational factors. The results of the Structural Equation Modelling indicated the ideal L2 self as the strongest causative factor for learning English among rural and resettled undergraduates. The ndings of the study reveal the strong ideal L2 self among the disadvantageous undergraduates in Sri Lanka. This study can be used for the theoretical and pedagogical implications, and future research in the similar Asian and South Asian contexts.

Insight Transformed

This article fills in a gap in the historiography of modern insight and mindfulness meditation. By providing an account of the role of S. N. Goenka in the formation and dissemination of modern insight meditation (vipassana), and his reframing of Burmese Buddhist meditation in a postcolonial South Asian context, I show how the roots of modern therapeutic forms of mindfulness emerge from magico-religious contexts that have been glossed over in a process of scientization. By presenting two parallel case studies from South Asia, in which insight meditation was appropriated and repurposed by Jain and Hindu communities under the pressure of distinct social, personal, and religious forces, I suggest that modern therapeutic mindfulness is just one instantiation of other similar processes. By understanding the variety of ways in which insight meditation has been encountered by and made available to prospective practitioners in multiple social and historical contexts, historians can better understand the complex of factors that gave rise to the modern category of 'mindfulness'.

An Ancestry Informative Marker Set Which Recapitulates the Known Fine Structure of Populations in South Asia.

The inference of genomic ancestry using ancestry informative markers (AIMs) can be useful for a range of studies in evolutionary genetics, biomedical research, and forensic analyses. However, the determination of AIMs for highly admixed populations with complex ancestries has remained a formidable challenge. Given the immense genetic heterogeneity and unique population structure of the Indian subcontinent, here we sought to derive AIMs that would yield a cohesive and faithful understanding of South Asian genetic origins. To discern the most optimal strategy for extracting AIMs for South Asians we compared three commonly used AIMs-determining methods namely, Infocalc, FST, and Smart Principal Component Analysis with ADMIXTURE, using previously published whole genome data from the Indian subcontinent. Our findings suggest that the Infocalc approach is likely most suitable for delineation of South Asian AIMs. In particular, Infocalc-2,000 (N = 2,000) appeared as the most informative South Asian AIMs panel that recapitulated the finer structure within South Asian genomes with high degree of sensitivity and precision, whereas a negative control with an equivalent number of randomly selected markers when used to interrogate the South Asian populations, failed to do so. We discuss the utility of all approaches under evaluation for AIMs derivation and interpreting South Asian genomic ancestries. Notably, this is the first report of an AIMs panel for South Asian ancestry inference. Overall these findings may aid in developing cost-effective resources for large-scale demographic analyses and foster expansion of our knowledge of human origins and disease, in the South Asian context.

Jesus’ Encounter with a Woman at the Well: A South Asian Perspective

The water of life discourse in the Gospel of John 4 has been of great interest and theological importance to readers of the Bible. This, one of the best-known Bible passages, highlights profound and significant teaching for Christians, which includes but is not limited to: the promised Messiah; God’s saving plan for the world; sovereign grace; living water; eternal life; witnessing for Christ and worshipping God in Spirit and truth. In this article, an attempt has been made to read the encounter through South Asian eyes by placing the sociocultural aspects of the narrative into a present-day South Asian context. Moreover, some applications for Jesus’ counter-cultural behavior are discussed. The article particularly focuses on caste and gender complexities in order to bring out the value of the passage from a South Asian perspective in the twenty-first century.1

Transformational leadership and innovative behavior: mediating and moderating effects

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of transformational leadership on innovative behavior through work meaningfulness. We also modeled the moderating effect of personal identification on the relationship between transformational leadership and innovative behavior. We based our theorization on the theory of positive emotions and interpersonal social cognitive paradigm. The participants of the study were managerial level workers in the manufacturing sector of Gujrat-Sialkot-Gujranwala (aka, the Golden Triangle) industrial cluster of Pakistan. We implemented the two-step structural equations modelling technique on our sample of 273 respondents. Results revealed that transformational leaders do not only have a direct influence on innovative behavior but also influences employee innovative behavior through work meaningfulness. Those employees who identified more their transformational leaders were more innovative. The study adds new mediating and moderating mechanism in the theory of transformational leadership and innovative behavior. The results also establish the external validity, in a south Asian context, of the theory of positive emotions and interpersonal social cognitive paradigm.

Ties That Bind?Kinship and Female Enterprise Creation in Rural India

In LMICs, a large number of female run enterprises are small businesses, mostly with one employee, the female owner, which are often home based and operate outside existing regulatory systems. Within the South-Asian context, particularly, there is evidence to suggest that there are real and significant structures of constrain which act as barriers restricting women’s ability to partake in the labour force. However, this literature is focused on the individual female and her ability to independently pursue employment opportunities. Rarely have the interdependent dynamics of the household context in which female entrepreneurs are embedded and the influence on the household- business nexus been considered. In this paper we focus on this dynamics, specifically on husband’s education, occupation, income and family wealth. We investigate this through unique data collected from over 9800 women belonging to Self Help Groups in the district of Kolar, Karnataka, India. Our main results reveal that husband’s secure occupation and the SHG groups’ husband’s average income support female enterprise creation. In-laws living in the household, when husbands are securely employed, are barriers to female enterprise creation. However, when husbands are securely employed and women have higher agency & decision making ability, it adds to female enterprise creation.

Prevalence and correlates of burnout among collegiate cycle students in Sri Lanka: a school-based cross-sectional study

BackgroundEven though the concept of burnout has been widely explored across the globe, the evidence base on burnout among high school students in the South Asian context is scanty. Against the backdrop of ever-increasing educational demands and expectations, the present study was designed to determine the prevalence and correlates of burnout among collegiate cycle students in Sri Lanka.MethodsA school-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 872 grade thirteen students in 15 government schools in an educational zone, Kegalle district, Sri Lanka selected by a stratified cluster sampling technique. The validated Sinhala version of the 15-item Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS) was used to assess burnout. The adjusted prevalence of burnout was computed based on the clinically validated cut-off values using the “exhaustion + 1” criterion. Multivariable logistic regression was carried out using backward elimination method to quantify the association between burnout and selected correlates identified at bivariate analysis at p value less than 0.05.ResultsThe response rate was 91.3% (n = 796). The adjusted prevalence of burnout among grade thirteen students was 28.8% (95% CI = 25.0–32.7%). Multivariable analysis elicited a multitude of statistically significant associations with burnout when controlled for other factors included in the model (p < 0.05). Perceived satisfaction related to the school environment (classroom and library facilities), school curriculum (scope, relevance, and difficulty of the subject content), study enthusiasm (preferred subject stream), study support (support from parents to teachers), and future expectations (personal and parental expectations) emerged as statistically significant negative associations with burnout, whereas having to encounter disturbances while studying and being subjected to bullying at school emerged as statistically significant positive associations with burnout.ConclusionsThe burnout prevalence among grade thirteen students in the selected educational zone, Sri Lanka is high. Most of the significant correlates of burnout are directly related to the academic endeavours. It is recommended to strengthen the counseling services at the school level to rectify the problems related to burnout among collegiate cycle students in Sri Lanka.