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International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2023
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Table 4
Results of Regression Test to Predict Academic Burnout with Self-Compassion Components as Predictor

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Note. male=1, female=0.
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.

The six components simultaneously has a significant individuals to be able to see and appraise their situations
effect on academic burnout, R =0.146, F=14.518, as an opportunity for growth (K. Lee & Lee, 2020; Neff,
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p<0.001. When compared to the overall effect of self- 2003). When encountering a lot of pressure and demands
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compassion (R =0.076), the effect of self-compassion as undergraduate students, individuals with high self-
components are higher and can be categorized as compassion will be able to see themselves and their
moderate (Gravetter & Forzano, 2018). Only three situations positively, which leads to lower academic
components, which are Self-Kindness, Mindfulness, and burnout. They will also be able to use emotion-focused
Over-identification, that respectively has a significant coping strategies that reduce fear of failure and negative
effect on academic burnout, where the Mindfulness thoughts (Cheraghian et al., 2016).
component has the highest effect (β=-0.252). If the Academic burnout is positively influenced by the number
predictors are added with the variables of age, semester, of semesters students have completed. This finding
and gender, R increases to 0.176 (F=10.984, p<0.001). indicates that academic burnout increases as a student's
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As stated in the previous results, only the Self-kindness, time in college lengthens. This condition is
Mindfulness, and Over-identification components, and understandable given that undergraduate students face
the semester and gender variables have significant more academic fatigue as they take on more challenging
effects. coursework and are required to finish their final project
or thesis during their final semester. This finding is
Discussion supported by Salmela-Aro and Upadyaya (Doğru &
This study aims to seek the effect of self-compassion on Kabasakal, 2023), which stated that exhaustion happens
academic burnout in undergraduate students. Results during the first year of college study, and escalates into
show that there is a negative significant effect of self- desensitization during the next years. Additionally,
compassion on academic burnout, indicating that the Ramirez‐Asis et al. (2023) noted that as the number of
higher the self-compassion one has, the lower the semesters increase, undergraduate students become more
academic burnout one experiences. The same conclusion emotionally exhausted and cynical about their academic
is found across research, such as in a study on final-year careers. This also explains why there are only two aspects
Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist (CBP) that significantly differ between male and female
undergraduate students and Person-Centered Counsellors undergraduate students: exhaustion and cynicism.
undergraduate students (Beaumont et al., 2016b), on This study also found that age does not have an effect on
midwifery undergraduate students (Beaumont et al., academic burnout, reiterating the research findings of
2016a), and on undergraduate students of counseling Aguayo et al. (2019) in students of University of
classes in Seoul Cyber University (Kyeong, 2013). Granada, and García-Izquierdo et al. (2018) in midwifery
Individuals with high self-compassion will be more students of University of Murcia. Researchers suggest
resilient in the face of negative situations, allowing them that this is due to the shared characteristics of
to become more compassionate and more accepting of respondents, in which the majority of them are young
their shortcomings and failures, avoid engaging in self- adults between 17 and 25 years old (Santrock, 2011).
criticism, and overcome existing challenges in a positive Female undergraduate students experience greater
and constructive way. High self-compassion also enables academic burnout than male undergraduate students

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