AN ANALYSIS ON THE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS BURNOUT IN TERMS OF ACADEMIC SELF-EFFICACY, PARENTAL MONITORING, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES

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Studies emphasize that school burnout is more intense in secondary and high school education where choices related to the future and expectations become significant in addition to the developmental problems. This study was carried out based on the opinion that expectations and anxiety about the importance of preparation and high performance can cause school burnout in students from the 6th grade to the end of the 8th grade. In this context, the secondary school students’ burnout was examined in terms of academic self-efficacy, parental monitoring, social support, leisure activities and demographical characteristics in the study. 396 students from the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade of secondary school in İstanbul province, Kadıköy district participated in this study. The study was designed in a descriptive research model and the data were analyzed in the SPSS program by using t test, variance and correlation analysis techniques. The data of the study was obtained using School Burnout Scale, Academic Self-Efficacy Scale, Parental Monitoring Scale, Child and Adolescent Social Support Scale and personal information form. The correlation analysis show that there were a significant positive association between Burnout School and Academic Self-Efficacy, (r(396) = .44, p=.000), between Burnout School and Frequency of perception, (r(396) = .32, p = .000), and between Burnout School and importance, (r(396) = .34, p=.000), It was found that the level of burn out was higher in female students compared to the male students and parental monitoring was at different dimensions for female and male students. There was also a significance in academic self-efficacy when the education level of the mother increases, and in feeling of insufficiency and academic self-efficacy when the education level of father increases. Also there was a significant difference found in terms of age, grade, family employment status, academic achievement and leisure activities (p<0.05).