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Predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: Can engagement suppress burnout?

In this study we modelled possible causes and consequences of student burnout and engagement on academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students. Further we asked, can student engagement protect against the effects of burnout? In total 4,061 university students from Portugal, Brazil, M...

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Autores principales: Marôco, João, Assunção, Hugo, Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi, Lin, Su-Wei, Sit, Pou-Seong, Cheung, Kwok-cheung, Maloa, Benvindo, Ilic, Ivana Stepanović, Smith, Thomas J., Campos, Juliana A. D. B.
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7595383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33119598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239816
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author Marôco, João
Assunção, Hugo
Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi
Lin, Su-Wei
Sit, Pou-Seong
Cheung, Kwok-cheung
Maloa, Benvindo
Ilic, Ivana Stepanović
Smith, Thomas J.
Campos, Juliana A. D. B.
author_facet Marôco, João
Assunção, Hugo
Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi
Lin, Su-Wei
Sit, Pou-Seong
Cheung, Kwok-cheung
Maloa, Benvindo
Ilic, Ivana Stepanović
Smith, Thomas J.
Campos, Juliana A. D. B.
author_sort Marôco, João
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description In this study we modelled possible causes and consequences of student burnout and engagement on academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students. Further we asked, can student engagement protect against the effects of burnout? In total 4,061 university students from Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Finland, Serbia, and Macao SAR, Taiwan participated in this study. With the data collected we analyzed the influence of Social Support, Coping Strategies, and school/course related variables on student engagement and burnout using structural equation modeling. We also analyzed the effect of student engagement, student burnout, and their interaction, on Academic Performance and Dropout Intention. We found that both student engagement and burnout are good predictors of subjective academic performance and dropout intention. However, student burnout suppresses the effect of student engagement on these variables. This result has strong implications for practitioners and administrators. To prevent student dropout, it is not enough to promote student engagement—additionally, and importantly, levels of student burnout must be kept low. Other variables such as social support and coping strategies are also relevant predictors of student engagement and burnout and should be considered when implementing preventive actions, self-help and guided intervention programs for college students.
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spelling pubmed-75953832020-11-02 Predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: Can engagement suppress burnout? Marôco, João Assunção, Hugo Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi Lin, Su-Wei Sit, Pou-Seong Cheung, Kwok-cheung Maloa, Benvindo Ilic, Ivana Stepanović Smith, Thomas J. Campos, Juliana A. D. B. PLoS One Research Article In this study we modelled possible causes and consequences of student burnout and engagement on academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students. Further we asked, can student engagement protect against the effects of burnout? In total 4,061 university students from Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Finland, Serbia, and Macao SAR, Taiwan participated in this study. With the data collected we analyzed the influence of Social Support, Coping Strategies, and school/course related variables on student engagement and burnout using structural equation modeling. We also analyzed the effect of student engagement, student burnout, and their interaction, on Academic Performance and Dropout Intention. We found that both student engagement and burnout are good predictors of subjective academic performance and dropout intention. However, student burnout suppresses the effect of student engagement on these variables. This result has strong implications for practitioners and administrators. To prevent student dropout, it is not enough to promote student engagement—additionally, and importantly, levels of student burnout must be kept low. Other variables such as social support and coping strategies are also relevant predictors of student engagement and burnout and should be considered when implementing preventive actions, self-help and guided intervention programs for college students. Public Library of Science 2020-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7595383/ /pubmed/33119598 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239816 Text en © 2020 Marôco et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Assunção, Hugo
Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi
Lin, Su-Wei
Sit, Pou-Seong
Cheung, Kwok-cheung
Maloa, Benvindo
Ilic, Ivana Stepanović
Smith, Thomas J.
Campos, Juliana A. D. B.
Predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: Can engagement suppress burnout?
title Predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: Can engagement suppress burnout?
title_full Predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: Can engagement suppress burnout?
title_fullStr Predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: Can engagement suppress burnout?
title_full_unstemmed Predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: Can engagement suppress burnout?
title_short Predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: Can engagement suppress burnout?
title_sort predictors of academic efficacy and dropout intention in university students: can engagement suppress burnout?
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7595383/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33119598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239816
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