The Effects Of Parental Marital Conflict On Academic Burnout Among Middle School Students

In recent years,although the Ministry of Education has been advocating the reduction of students’ burdens and promulgating the "double reduction" policy,the problem of academic burnout among middle school students has not been well alleviated.This study explores the effects of parental conflict,positive emotions and negative emotions on middle school students’ academic burnout from both family and individual perspectives,i.e.,external parental conflict and internal middle school students’ perceptions of their own life satisfaction and emotional states.This study used the Parental Marital Conflict Scale,the Subjective WellBeing Scale,and the Adolescent Burnout Scale as research instruments,and 355 junior high school students in Dongguan City,Guangdong Province were selected using questionnaire and whole group random sampling method:1.there was a partially significant difference in the perception of parental marital conflict among students with different family status: junior high school students who lived with their mothers and fathers(including step-parents)scored significantly higher on the degree of parental marital conflict than those who lived only with their fathers(mothers)or others.2.Middle school students’ academic burnout was at a moderate level,and junior high school students had higher levels of academic burnout than first and second year students.3.boys scored higher on positive emotions than girls,and junior high school students scored lower on positive emotions than freshmen and sophomores,while scoring significantly higher on negative emotions than junior high school students.4.parental marital conflict negatively predicted academic burnout.5.positive emotion and negative emotion not only predicted academic burnout,but also played multiple mediating roles between parental marital conflict and academic burnout in junior high school students.