The Mediating Role of Professional Commitment in Self-efficacy and Learning Burnout of Special Education Majors — Take China's Southwestern Part as an Example

Journal: Journal of Higher Education Research DOI: 10.32629/jher.v2i5.492

Yue Liu

College of Education, Beijing Sport University

Abstract

Through the questionnaire for the professional commitment, self-efficacy, academic burnout of the southwestern part, and explore the relationship between the three and its intrinsic mechanisms, in order to reduce learning burnout of normal students in special education, improve their Academic quality provides effective recommendations. The results showed that self-efficacy positively affected the low sense of achievement in learning burnout, negatively affected the inappropriate behavior, and had no significant effect on the depression. Among them, self-efficacy positively affects professional commitment, and then significantly negatively affects low sense of achievement in learning burnout. Professional commitment has a complete mediating effect between self-efficacy and low sense of achievement, while professional commitment has no mediating effect between self-efficacy, low mood and inappropriate behavior.

Keywords

special education, students, professional commitment, learning burnout, self efficacy, mediating effect

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