Title: Employment issues and its effect on academic burnout (case: agricultural students)

Authors: Mahtab Pouratashi; Asghar Zamani

Addresses: Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education, No. 70, Golfam St., Africa Boulevard, Tehran, Iran ' Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education, No. 70, Golfam St., Africa Boulevard, Tehran, Iran

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate employment issues and its effect on academic burnout of students. The statistical population comprised students in colleges of agriculture at selected universities of Iran (N = 6352). For the study, 247 students were selected, using random sampling method. After developing a questionnaire, confirming validity and reliability of the questionnaire-by views of experts' panel and calculating Cronbach's alpha (employment issues = 0.78, exhaustion = 0.76, cynicism = 0.81, and academic inefficacy = 0.79), and collecting data, the five specific objectives were studies descriptively and inferentially using SPSS/Windows. The findings indicated that employment issues for agricultural students (by use of factor analysis) could be classified in five groups, including: knowledge and skill, awareness and attitude, support, university and educational expectations, and the value of knowledge and learning. In addition, regression analysis showed that about half of the variation of dependent variable (academic burnout) was defined by three variables (including awareness and attitude, knowledge and skill, and university and educational expectations).

Keywords: employment; academic burnout; agriculture; exhaustion; cynicism; academic inefficacy; higher education; student; factor analysis; regression analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEED.2018.094281

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2018 Vol.9 No.3, pp.236 - 247

Received: 24 Oct 2017
Accepted: 26 Apr 2018
Published online: 26 Aug 2018 *

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