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School burnout and engagement profiles among digital natives in Finland: a person-oriented approach
Katariina Salmela-aroJoona MuotkaKimmo EalhoKirsti LonkaKai Hakkarainensubject
profilesSocial Psychology4. Educationmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesschool burnout050301 educationschool engagementBurnoutDevelopmental psychologyPerson orientedCynicismFeelingDigital nativeDevelopmental and Educational Psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSchool engagementSet (psychology)Psychology0503 educationSocial psychologyta515050104 developmental & child psychologymedia_commondescription
AbstractApplying a person-oriented approach, this study set out to examine what profiles of school engagement and school burnout (i.e., exhaustion, cynicism, inadequacy) can be identified among elementary school children at age 12, a generation also often referred to as the generation of digital natives. We compared the group memberships in their use of socio-digital technologies and related functioning as we expected to find a gap between some digital natives and current educational practices which do not include socio-digital technology in feelings of cynicism towards school. Latent profile analysis identified five groups: Engaged (50%) students, who formed the majority; Stressed (4%) students, who reported high exhaustion and high inadequacy as a student; Students High in cynicism (burnout group) (5%) with high scores on all the components of school burnout, particularly cynicism, but also on exhaustion and inadequacy as a student; students Moderate in Cynicism (15%), whose cynicism was directed in par...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-01 |