Influence of college students’ professional identity on learning burnout: the mediating role of emptiness and the moderating role of career calling

The findings further corroborated the negative association between professional identity and learning burnout. Moreover, the results revealed that emptiness served as a mediator linking professional identity to learning burnout, whereas career calling positively moderated the effect of emptiness on students' learning burnout. These findings highlight the importance of strengthening students' professional identity and career calling, as well as mitigating feelings of emptiness, in efforts to reduce learning burnout among university students.