Оn the relationship between learning motivation and emotional burnout in students: gender aspect

The article presents the results of the study of the relationship between learning motivation and burnout. The author proceeds from the fact that burnout is a serious threat to the psychological well-being of students, in particular to their motivation to learn, so monitoring motivation and burnout is an urgent task. The study compares the profiles of motivation with the profiles of burnout and learning experiences: students with the highest levels of intrinsic motivation to learn, but different levels of self-esteem motivation (high – 32 % of the total sample or low – 20 %) showed either no signs of burnout or noticeable emotional exhaustion with high meaningfulness of activities in both cases; students with a predominance of extrinsic motivation (20 %) or amotivation (9 %) were more prone to burnout, showing a high level of emotional exhaustion against the background of an average level of well-being (20 %). A similar picture was obtained in both samples, with girls being more characterised by profiles with a high level of self-esteem motivation, and boys – vice versa. The limitations of the obtained results are discussed, as well as the need to prevent burnout in higher education institutions.