Investigating the Relationships between Quality of Learning Experience’s Components and Self-efficacy on Academic Burnout among Agricultural Students (Case Study: Agriculture and Natural Resources Campus at Razi University)

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension and Education Research

Tahereh Maleki ¹ , Nastaran Heidari ² , Amir Hossein Ali Beigi ³

1 - Ph.D. Student of Agricultural Development, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, University of Tabriz. Iran
2 - Graduated Student (M.Sc.), Agricultural Extension and Education, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Razi University. Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Razi University. Iran

Received: 2019-03-02 Accepted : 2019-03-02 Published : 2019-02-20

Keywords: Self- efficacy, Quality of Learning Experience, Agricultural Students, Students' Academic Burnout,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, course content, flexibility, teacher-student relationships and academic burnout among agricultural students. Sample was 120 students that selected among 1072 undergraduate students at Agriculture and Natural Resources Campus, Razi University by random sampling technique and Kerjcie and Morgan table. The result showed that three class of academic burnout score are: Low (40.93); moderate (49.61) and severe (61.11). In addition, based on, Pearson's correlation coefficient, self-efficacy and quality of learning experiences were negatively correlated with students' academic burnout(p=0.01). Moreover, there is negative and significant relationship between academic burnout and content, flexibility, professor-student relationship (p=0.01). The findings of this study can help to agricultural higher education planners, considering the students' academicburnout and designing plans in order to reduce this negative factor in effective learning and prepare students to increase their self- efficacy.

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