The efficacy of mindfulness training on academic burnout and academic resilience of female students

Academic burnout and resilience are important components of students' academic performance. One of the methods that seems to be effective in improving academic components is mindfulness training. Limited studies have investigated the efficacy of mindfulness training on burnout and academic resilience of female students.

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the efficacy of mindfulness training on academic burnout and academic resilience among female students.

The current research was conducted with a semi-experimental method of pre-test-post-test type. The statistical population of the research included all female students of the first period of secondary schools in the 5th district of Tehran in the academic year of 2016-2017. The random sampling method was a multi-stage cluster. In this way, 2 schools were randomly selected from among all the schools in this area, and then 250 students were randomly selected from among the students who were tested by Meslesh's academic burnout (Schaufeli, et al., 2002) and academic resilience (Samuels, 2004) tests. Then, 30 students were randomly selected among the participants who scored higher in academic burnout and lower in academic resilience. Then 15 students were randomly assigned to the experimental group and 15 to the control group. The mindfulness training package was implemented on the experimental group and after its completion, the subjects of both groups were re-tested to measure the effectiveness of the mindfulness training on the experimental group. In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics, covariance analysis was also used.

The results indicated that mindfulness-based training was significantly effective in reducing academic burnout and increasing academic resilience of female students (P>0/05).

According to the findings, it is concluded that mindfulness-based education can help to increase the academic resilience of female students while reducing academic burnout. Therefore, paying attention to mindfulness training can play an important role in improving the positive aspects of education in students, including reducing burnout and increasing academic resilience.