Relationship between personality traits and coping styles with academic burnout: The mediating role of academic procrastination

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and coping styles with academic burnout: the mediating role of academic procrastination in female high school students in Kerman. The research is a correlational design and the sample group was 498 students of arithmetic and God-fearing schools in the academic year of 2019-2020 who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The tools used in this study included Maslash burnout list (2002), Andler and Parker stress coping style list (1990), Neo personality traits list (1992), and Solomon and Roth Bloom's list of academic procrastination (1994). Indirect path of personality traits (extraversion / introversion (-0/31), neuroticism (0/301), openness to experience (-0/25), adaptation (-0/23), conscientiousness (-0/21)) is significant through academic procrastination on burnout plus the indirect path of style (p<0/001). Coping with stress (problem-oriented (-0/32), emotion-driven (0/30), social engagement, and distraction (-0/19)) is significant through academic procrastination on burnout (p<0/001). Therefore, since people use stress coping styles according to their personality traits and characteristics, teaching stress coping strategies and skills to people with personality traits (extroversion, introversion). Neuroticism, conscientiousness and adaptation and openness to experience) in addition to reducing academic procrastination is also effective in reducing academic burnout.

Keywords

• stress coping styles
• personality traits
• academic procrastination
• academic burnout