Psychological Analysis among Goal Orientation, Emotional Intelligence and Academic Burnout in Middle School Students

Abstract

During schooling, students can undergo, for more or less long periods of time, different contextual settings that can negatively affect their personal and academic development, leading them not to meet their academic goals. The main objective of this research responds to examine the relationships between the constructs of goal orientations, emotional intelligence, and burnout in students. Method: This research comprised 2896 students from 15 Spanish high schools with ages between 12 and 18 years distributed across male (N = 1614; 55.73%) and female (N = 1282; 44.26%) genders. The measurements were made through Perception of Success Questionnaire (POSQ), the Trait Meta Mood Scale (TMMS-24) and the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS). Results: Results showed links between task orientation, high emotional intelligence levels, and adaptive behaviors and between ego orientation, academic burnout and less adaptive behavior. Similarly, it was shown that emotional intelligence can be used to predict goal-oriented behaviors. Conclusion: It is argued that the promotion of task orientation among secondary school students can lead to the adoption of adaptive behaviors and this, in turn, improve the development of students toward academic and personal settings.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mobile Phone Dependence, and Academic Boredom in Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been frequent reports of adolescents who are tired of studying, which has aroused widespread concern. Academic boredom refers to a negative attitude toward learning, during which students experience emotional exhaustion ( Lin and Huang, 2014 ; Ying et al, 2016 ; Supervía et al, 2020 ). This can directly lead to a decline in academic performance ( May et al, 2015 ), which in turn reduces students’ academic involvement, damages their interpersonal relationships with classmates and teachers, and affects students’ long-term career development ( Perry et al, 2010 ; Rojas-Flores et al, 2015 ; Quin, 2016 ).…”

Academic Goal Orientation: New Insights and Cultural Adaptation of Academic Goal Orientation Questionnaire into the Turkish Language

“…One proof reinforcing that the construct of goal orientation is being measured with other constructs such as engagement, self-concept, burnout and academic performance in terms of mediation and relationships for students at different stages of education (Supervía et al, 2020a;Supervía et al, 2020b;Supervía and Bordás, 2020). It is evident that this literature review and adaptation study will shed further light into the study of goal orientation of the students and help researchers take advantage of the instruments both English and Turkish further.…”

“…On the other hand, because very recently published studies have still taken a vague approach to the study of goal orientation, this study is particularly significant from the perspective that it elaborates a detailed explanation and historical background in the literature review section as well as offering an adapted instrument for immediate use. For example, Supervía et al (2020a), suggested that goal orientation and emotional intelligence are used interchangeably, which call for suspicion as the adapted instrument is capable of yielding hard data as to the levels of the goal orientation in students. They also regard goal orientation as a psychological variable, which is unlike any other previous core literature.…”

“…A reasonable ground for this isolation is that many recent studies have been published investigating the relationships between the construct of goal orientation and self-efficacy (Curelaru, 2020); goal orientation and emotional intelligence and burnout (Supervía et al, 2020a); goal orientation and engagement and self-concept (Supervía et al, 2020b); goal orientation and emotional intelligence and burnout (Supervía and Bordás, 2020); goal orientation and positive coping strategy and motivational beliefs (Subaşı, 2020); goal orientation and academic achievement (Giota and Bergh, 2020;Moghimi, 2020); goal orientation and individual characteristics (Lamm et. al., 2020); and goal orientation and motivation (Hidajat et al, 2020).…”

Physical Activity for Health and Wellness

“…PA could enhance sleep by helping individuals cope with stress, indicating that stress management could be a nonpharmaceutical treatment for sleep improvement. Considering the mental health of young people, Usán Supervía et al [14] examined the relationships between the constructs of goal orientations, emotional intelligence, and burnout in high school students. The authors outlined that the psychological profile arising from these features could be important for academic performance and school participation.…”