The relationship between learning styles and goal orientation with academic burnout of Bostanabad high school students in 2012-2013

The present research aimed to investigate the relationship between learning styles and goal orientation with academic burnout of Bostanabad high school students. It was a descriptive study of correlational type. The statistical population of the research consisted of 2172 high school students of Bostanabad province in the academic year 2012-2013, 360 of whom were selected by random stratified method, using Cocoran formula. To gather the data, Breso etal.`s educational burnout, Eluit and Mac Grigor`s goal orientation and Kolb`s learning style questionnaires were used. The computed Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient indicated that there was no significant relationship between the students` goal orientation and academic burnout. It was also found that, among four goal orientation indices, the mastery–avoidance index had a significant negative relationship and performance–avoidance index had a significant positive relationship with academic burnout. Moreover, the results revealed that there was a significant negative relationship between learning style and its indices and students` burnout. Also, the results of the multiple regression analysis showed that, among the predictive indices, only active–experimentation learning indices, performance–avoidance and mastery avoidance goal orientations and reflective–observation learning style could predict students` academic burnout. The results emphasized the importance of examining academic burnout and its effect on academic variables.