Relationship of self-oriented and society-oriented perfectionism with academic burn-out regarding mediating role of the internal and external motivation

The goal of this study was to investigat the mediating role of internal and external motivation in the relationship between self-oriented perfectionism, as well as, society-oriented perfectionism with academic burn-out in students of the Farhangian University in Semnan city.
regarding the purpose of the study this is an applied research, while in data gathering view could be considerd as a descriptive-correlative. Statistical population includes all the students of Farhangian University in 1394-95 academic year. Study sample were included 240 students (144 male and 96 femal) who were selected by a stratified randomized sampling method. All participants completed scales of perfectionism, academic motivation and academic burn-out and the dataset was analyzed with a Pearson’s correlation and a path analysis statistical model.
Study results were indicated a significant negative correlation effect for self-oriented perfectionism and academic burn-out in the students. Self-oriented perfectionism indirectly and with mediation of internal academic motivation was negatively related to academic burn-out in students. A significant negative effect was evident for society-oriented perfectionism relating to students’ academic burn-out as well, whereas no significant effect was found for society-oriented perfectionism with external motivation mediation.
It could be concluded that personality factors such as self-perfectionism and internal educational motivation cosiderably affect academic burn-out among university students.