Determining Student's Profiles via Academic Help Seeking, Perception of School Environment and Social Goal Achievement Components According to Academic Burnout: Person-based Analysis

The aim of this research was to survey motivational profiles of students and differences between different group's profiles on the basis of help seeking, perception of school environment and social goal achievement are studied. In this descriptive study (correlation), research population included 1295 students (653 females and 642 males) of second grade students of high school in Marivan in the academic year 2012-13. Research participants included 274 students (138 females and 136 males) who were selected among high schools using stratified random sampling method. Then four questionnaires as perception of school environment, academic help seeking, social goal achievement& academic burnout were performed by the participants. The gathered data were analyzed via SPSS software using clustered analysis ( k-means cluster method), discrimination function analysis and single sample t-test. The result showed that the first cluster has higher mean in acceptance and lower mean in performance goal orientation, so was named low motivational orientation cluster. Second cluster has higher mean in enjoyment and lower mean in performance goal orientation, so was named high motivational orientation cluster. The result of single simple t- test showed that there was no significance differences between both low and high cluster. In participants of cluster1, score of academic burnout (M=59.40, SD= 71/7) is higher than cluster 2.Therefore, the finding revealed that academic burnout was low in high motivational orientation cluster. This research has implications for educators especially teachers, who can use this results for help to reduce school burnout and improving the students’ achievement.