The role of moral intelligence and risk perception in predicting student's academic burnout and procrastination

The aim of the present correlational study was to investigate the role of moral intelligence and risk perception in predicting students’ academic burnout and procrastination. The population was all high school students who were studying in the first semester of 1394-1395 in Qorveh high schools. The sample included 120 students who were selected by convenience sampling and academic burnout questionnaire, procrastination questionnaire, moral intelligence questionnaire, and cognitive evaluation of high-risk events were used to collect data. Pearson correlation and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of regression analysis showed that moral intelligence and risk perception explained 79.4% of the procrastination variance and 48.5% of the academic burnout variance. F ratio also showed that the prediction of procrastination and academic burnout is significant (P=0.000). Therefore, paying attention to variables such as moral intelligence that is "critical intelligence" for all humans and combining knowledge, desire and determination is an important step in the prevention of academic burnout and students’ procrastination.