The Influence Of Meaning In Life On High School Students’ Burnout:Longitudinal Mediating Effect Of Psychological Resilience

Currently,high school students’ burnout is a common phenomenon,leading to an inability to complete academic work at their best level.This not only affects their future planning but also can cause negative emotions,affecting students’ mental health.Student burnout has long been a focus of scholars from various fields.Previous studies have shown that meaning in life and psychological resilience are important factors affecting student burnout.However,researches on the three factors have only focused on their two-way relationships,with little investigation into their developmental trends and their interrelationships.This study used a longitudinal tracking approach to investigate high school students in a school in Tongren City,Guizhou Province,China.Firstly,Meaning in Life Questionnaire-Chinese version(MLQ-C),the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescent(RSCA),and the Adolescent Student Burnout Inventory(ASBI)were used to explore the preliminary relationships between meaning in life,psychological resilience,and student burnout,with 703 participants involved in,including 371 female students.Additionally,366 participants,including 202 female students,were followed up for ten months through three testing sessions,aiming to verify the longitudinal mediating mechanism of psychological resilience between meaning in life and student burnout.The analysis of these three variables’ correlations indicate that:(1)meaning in life and psychological resilience significantly negatively correlate with student burnout,(2)meaning in life significantly positively correlate with resilience,and(3)psychological resilience plays a partial mediating role between meaning in life and student burnout.Moreover,the longitudinal results showed that:(1)the level of psychological resilience exhibits an increasing developmental trend,while the phenomenon of student burnout is on the decline,and the slope of meaning in life can significantly predict the slope of psychological resilience,(2)the initial level of psychological resilience serves as a longitudinal mediator between the initial levels of meaning in life and student burnout.