Abstract:

To investigate the influence of sense of meaning in life on learning burnout of high school students and the longitudinal mediating effect of psychological resilience, 366 senior high school students (freshmen and sophomores) were selected from 3 senior high schools in Tongren City, Guizhou Province. The Sense of Meaning in Life Scale, the Adolescent Mental Toughness Scale, and the Adolescent Learning Burnout Scale were used for a follow-up test for 10 months for 3 times. The results show that (1) the sense of meaning in life significantly and negatively predicted high school students' learning burnout with a long-term effect; (2) the sense of meaning in life can not only directly affect high school students' learning burnout, but also can be achieved through the intermediary effect of psychological resilience, and this intermediary effect has cross-time stability. This result indicates that the sense of meaning in life and psychological resilience play an important role in learning burnout of senior high school students, which can be alleviated by cultivating the sense of meaning of life and enhancing psychological resilience.

Key words: learning burnout, sense of meaning in life, psychological resilience,, high school students