Relationship between academic burnout and parental rearing styles in senior high school students

Objective To investigate the relationship between academic burnout and parental rearing styles,and to provide bases for the improvement.Methods A sample of 747 senior high school students in Beijing was investigated with Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey(MBI-SS)and EMBU.Then the data were analyzed with MANOVA between the groups of high tendency to burnout(HTB) and low tendency to burnout(LTB).Canonical correlation analysis was used to each domains in MBI-SS and EMBU.Results In comparison to the LTB-group,the HTB-group got less in emotional warmth,and more in punishment,rejection,overprotection and overintervention.Conclusion Negative parental rearing styles associate closely with academic burnout.