One In Five Girls In Upper Secondary School Suffers From School Burnout, Finnish Study Finds
“School burnout is a chronic school-related stress syndrome which manifests as exhaustion, cynicism about school and feelings of inadequacy. Engagement about school is characterised by energy, dedication and an ability to become absorbed in the work.”
While we’re not sure how much of a role cultural factors may have played in a study like this, and despite the fact that academic and school-related pressures vary vastly from country to country, we do feel that as parents we’d all be better off knowing about, and watching out for, school-related stress especially in those tricky teen years when there are so many other issues our adolescent kids are dealing with.
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education research, emotional development, school burnout, stress
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