Why am i burnout and engaged? The role of motivation and personality
Why am i burnout and engaged? The role of motivation and personality

Summary/Abstract: This research answered why students were burnout and engaged through investigated the relation between personality, motivation, and academic outcome in 365 business students. Specifically, I investigated the relation between self-efficacy personality, self-determined motivation (intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation), academic engagement and students’ burnot. Burnout and engagement were two contradictory things but both were essential for students' success in their learning process. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in improving academic engagement and proving that students' burnout is caused by amotivated students. Results of Pearson correlation showed that all self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, amotivation, academic engagement, and students’ burnout variables are mutually correlated with each other. Implementing structural equation modeling (SEM) for causal relationship between self-efficacy personality and both academic engagement and students’ burnout through mediator variable, namely intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation. I found that the proposed model has a good fit. Academic engagement is well explained by self-efficacy personality through intrinsic motivation and amotivation, but not extrinsic motivation. Students’ burnout is also well explained by self-efficacy personality through intrinsic motivation and amotivation, but not extrinsic motivation. The results of this study support the results of previous research, that self-determination theory and social-learning theory underlie students' burnout and academic engagement.

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