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Students’ perceptions of parental bonding styles and their academic burnout

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This study investigated how parental bonding style affects academic burnout in Korean adolescents. Participants were 447 middle school students, who completed the Parental Bonding Instrument and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey. MANCOVA results confirmed that adolescents reporting the optimal bonding parental style, for both mother and father, have lower scores on three subscales of academic burnout (Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Inefficacy) than do their counterparts who report the affectionless control parental style. We discuss the possible implications for reducing students’ academic burnout rates.

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Shin, H., Lee, J., Kim, B. et al. Students’ perceptions of parental bonding styles and their academic burnout. Asia Pacific Educ. Rev. 13, 509–517 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-012-9218-9

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