The Influence of Self-esteem on College Students’ Learning Burnout: A Mediation Model

Abstract

We measured 324 college students’ self-esteem, motivation for achievement, and learning burnout, and also we examined the inner mechanism of self-esteem’s influence on students’ learning burnout. The results show: (1) There is a negative effect of self-esteem on college students’ learning burnout; (2) Motivation of pursuing succeed plays partial mediating effect between self-esteem and learning burnout, but mediating effect of avoiding failure motivation between them is not significant. The study reveals that: the degree of learning burnout can be reduced by improving college students’ level of self-esteem.