The impact of effort–reward imbalance on academic burnout: the chain mediating effect of frustration and perceived stress

Effort-reward imbalance affects academic burnout through the mediating effects of frustration and perceived stress as well as through the chain mediating effect of frustration and perceived stress. These findings suggest that in school education, we should prevent effort-reward imbalance and its impact on teenagers' frustration and perceived stress, which is conducive to reducing academic burnout among teenagers.