ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
The mediating role of general academic emotions in burnout and procrastination among Chinese medical undergraduates during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.
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- Procrastination in medical students: a systematic review.Canadian medical education journal · 2026Pooled it
- The Mediating Effects of Psychological Capital Between Undergraduate Nursing Students' Professional Commitment and Academic Procrastination.Nursing open · 2026Article
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- Only low-arousal emotions matter: grade-dependent mediation of academic emotions between psychological resilience and learning burnout in middle school.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Factors Associated with Burnout in Medical Students: An Exploration of Demographic, Academic, and Psychological Variables.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Perceived stress and academic procrastination among higher vocational nursing students: the mediating roles of positive and negative emotions.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Factors influencing the negative emotions of undergraduate medical students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Perceived Supervisor Support and Academic Procrastination in Postgraduate Students: Roles of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Learning Engagement.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Undergraduates' Negative Emotion and Academic Procrastination During COVID-19: Life Autonomy as a Mediator and Sense of School Belonging as a Moderator.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Academic procrastination has become more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic due to teaching/learning changes. This phenomenon induces academic burnout, which is already serious among medical students. However, the academic emotion, which is the factor most vulnerable to changes in the academic environment, is still unknown. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the mediating role of general academic emotions in procrastination and burnout among Chinese medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This cross-sectional study enrolled 995 medical students from China Medical University. We applied the Chinese version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS), the Aitken Procrastination Inventory (API) and the General Academic Emotion Questionnaire for College Students (GAEQ) to evaluate the variables of interest. We examined the mediation effects of GAEs by hierarchical linear regression analysis. Results: Correlation analyses showed a significant positive correlation between procrastination and burnout. Procrastination and burnout positively and negatively correlated with negative academic emotions, respectively. Hierarchical linear regression analyses showed that procrastination had positive associations with negative academic emotions, while it had negative associations with positive academic emotions. The contributions (as mediators) of GAEs to burnout and procrastination were 21.16% (NAEs), 29.75% (PAEs), 54.25% (NDEs) and 23.69% (PDEs). Conclusions: The results indicate that academic emotions had mediating effects on procrastination and burnout. Medical students' worries about the uncertainty of the learning environment may have exacerbated academic burnout. Targeted improvements in the teaching environment to communicate encouragement and reduce anxiety and helplessness among medical undergraduates for implementing medical education while preventing and controlling the infection.
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