A cross-cultural comparison of academic burnout among Chinese and Kazakhstani secondary students
Zhou M. Ye B. Mynbayeva A. Yong L. Assilbek N.
June 2024Springer
Current Psychology
2024#43Issue 2119140 - 19152 pp.
Several studies have performed cross-cultural comparisons of academic burnout in Asia, however the equivalency of various measurements of academic burnout remains unclear, as well as whether the key characteristics of academic burnout are similar across cultures or nations. The current study conducted a cross-cultural investigation of academic burnout among secondary school students in China and Kazakhstan to address two objectives: (a) to evaluate the measurement invariance of the Academic Burnout Scale between the two nations, and (b) using a network approach, to compare the similarities and differences in the core features and network structure of academic burnout. Two datasets were gathered from secondary school students, a Chinese sample (51.1% girls; M = 14.42 years, SD = 1.47) and a Kazakhstani sample (56.1% girls; M = 14.16, SD = 1.41). Results showed that the Academic Burnout Scale had similar item-factor combination and factor loadings for both the Chinese and Kazakhstani samples, however item thresholds were not equivalent across the two countries, suggesting that comparing mean scores of academic burnout among secondary students in these two countries is not meaningful. The network structure of academic burnout demonstrated a similar pattern in both samples, with Item 6 (“It does not matter if I study or not”) assessing cynicism, and Item 15 (“I cope well with my studies”) being the core feature in both samples. Our findings further the understanding of academic burnout in a cross-cultural context, and provide clinical implications for interventions on academic burnout.
Academic burnout , Cross-cultural , Measurement equivalence , Network analysis
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Department of Pedagogy and Educational Management, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Center of Mental Health Education and Research, School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China
Department of General and Applied Psychology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Avenue 71, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan
School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
Department of Pedagogy and Educational Management
Center of Mental Health Education and Research
Department of General and Applied Psychology
School of Psychology
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