The role of empathy between peers in upper secondary students' study engagement and burnout.

ABSTRACT: Having the ability to understand emotionally how other people feel and see things is an essential fabric for building and sustaining functional interpersonal relationships. Without such an ability, social interaction crumbles, engagement fails, and learning is eroded. Yet, empirical evidence on the relationship between study burnout and study engagement, and empathy between upper secondary school students is limited. We are tackling the challenge by exploring the association between empathy between peers and study engagement and study burnout among upper secondary school students. Two hundred and eighty upper secondary education students took part in our cross-sectional study. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the association between empathy (i.e., cognitive and affective em

SUBMITTER: Tikkanen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9561899 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature