RELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AND SCHOOL BURNOUT
Keywords:
Subjective Well-Being, School Burnout, StudentAbstract
Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship
between school burnout and subjective well-being for students in grade of 9th
to 11th. The methodology of this research was descriptive and correlation. The
two questionnaires employed here were The Satisfaction with Life Scale with
five items of the Diener et al. (1985) and School-Burnout Inventory with nine
items and three component - exhaustion at schoolwork (EXH), cynicism
toward the meaning of school (CYN), and sense of inadequacy at School
(INAD) - measures of school burnout of the Salmela-Aro et al. (2009). The
results showed that the high school students described their subjective wellbeing
in relatively good and also in overall marked high scores (agree) on
exhaustion at schoolwork, and they were relatively agree with cynicism
toward the meaning of school, and sense of inadequacy at school. There was
relatively positive correlation between students’ subjective well-being and
exhaustion at schoolwork, relatively high negative correlation between
students’ subjective well-being and cynicism toward the meaning of school,
and no any significance correlation between students’ subjective well-being
and sense of inadequacy at School. There were positive correlation between
students’ subjective well-being and some components of school burnout e.g.
SWB with EXH and in the some components of school burnout and
subjective well-being there were negative correlation e.g. SWB with CYN,
and there were no significance differences between SWB and some
component of school burnout e.g. SWB with INDA.
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