Study of the Relationship Between Student’s Social Intelligence and Academic Help Seeking With Academic Burnout: Explaining of Extraversion Character as Mediator Variable

The purpose of the present study is survey of relationship between student’s social intelligence and academic help seeking with academic burnout by use of extraversion character as mediator variable in students of Sanandaj University of Medical Sciences.

The research methode is descriptive-survey and correlation method. Statistical population of this research included all of the students of Nursing and Midwife Faculty (Surgery room, Nursing, Midwife) in 94-95 that the participants were four hundred. About 198 of the participants were selected by determining the sample size with Cochrane method, also the sampling method was used in this research proportional sampling. The instruments in this study including: four social intelligence’s questionnaire, help seeking, academic burnout, and Neo’s extraversion property. For analyzing the data, the structural equation modeling approach was used by using Amos software 18 editions, SPSS, and LISREL (version8/54).

The most findings of the research were social intelligence with %38 coefficient and help seeking with %83 coefficient. They can directly explain academic burnout and indirectly the mediator of extraversion property.

generally, previous studies have evaluated scientific research as academic and psychological harms, but this study showed that it can be used to improve or improve the status of social intelligence. academic help seeking can reduce academic burnout.