The relationship between academic burnout and achievement motivation with academic performance of senior high school students

The present study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between academic burnout and achievement motivation with senior high school students` academic performance in Ardabil during the academic year 1391-1392. The statistical sample of this study included 379 high school students (197 boys and 182 girls) who were selected by cluster sampling from 162 high schools. The data were gathered employing Breso`s academic burnout and Hermens` achievement motivation questionnaires. The students` grade point averages (GPAs) in the first semester were considered as their academic performance scores. The obtained Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there was a negative relationship between academic burnout and academic performance but a significant positive relationship between achievement motivation and academic performance. The results of multiple regression showed that academic burnout had a better capability in predicting the academic performance in comparison with achievement motivation. On the other hand, the results of Hotlling t2 analysis showed that there was a significant difference among the combination of the two dependent variables in two groups of girl and boy students. The result of the independent t-tests showed that there was a significant difference between girl and boy students only in term of academic performance.