Resilience and Academic Burnout in High School Students at Dayah (Islamic Dormitory School System in Aceh)

Abstract

This study aims to look at the relationship between resilience and academic burnout in high school students public at Dayah (Islamic Dormitory School System). This study uses a quantitative method with a correlational approach. Data collection uses a Likert scale model that was compiled aspects of resilience according to Reivich and Shatte (2002) and academic burnout based on the aspects of Schaufeli et al (2002). The sample used amounted to 149 students with the sampling method using a purposive sampling technique. Data analysis used the Spearman's Rho technique. The results of this study show that there is a negative relationship between resilience and academic burnout with a correlation value (r) = -0.323 with a significance value (P <0.000). It can be concluded that one of the factors that can effect academic burnout is resilience. Resilience has a role in influencing a person's academic burnout. So the higher the level of resilience received, the lower the academic burnout in students, conversely the lower the resilience, the higher the academic burnout in students. It is recommended for students to further enhance or optimize resilient attitudes in older to be better able to deal with academic challenges, to remain calmer, to better control the pressure that arises in the mind, to be more optimistic, to be able to improve in identifying the causes of the problems encountered, to increase empathy, to be confident in one’s own abbilities, and to be better able to recover from any difficulties that occur so that they can have a more effective strategies to overcome learning fatigue.