Journal of Women Interdisciplinary Researches

Investigating the relationship between social skills and academic boredom with the mediating role of empathy in first-year middle school students in Fasa city

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Yaser Dehghani 1
Saeedeh faragollahzadeh 2

1 Non-profit Fatemieh Institute, Shiraz. Fars. Iran.

2 Graduate, Master of Social Psychology. Non-profit Fatemieh Institute, Shiraz. Fars. Iran.

10.22034/jwir.2025.2074231.1042
Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the level of social skills and academic burnout with the mediating role of empathy in junior high school students in Fasa city. The statistical population included all junior high school students in Fasa city who were studying in the academic year 1403-1404, from which 300 students were determined using a multi-stage cluster method using the Morgan table. The research tools included three questionnaires: Matson's Social Skills Assessment (1983), Rijsger et al.'s Academic Burnout Questionnaire (2020), and Davis's Empathy Questionnaire (1983). Data analysis was performed using IMOS software and structural equation modeling method at a confidence level of 95%. Considering that the significance level was less than 0.5 and other factors were constant, the path coefficient of social skills on empathy was 0.71, social skills on academic burnout was -0.29, empathy on academic burnout was -0.28, and social skills through empathy also had an effect on academic burnout of -0.196.The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the level of social skills and academic burnout with the mediating role of empathy in junior high school students in Fasa city. The statistical population included all junior high school students in Fasa city who were studying in the academic year 1403-1404, from which 300 students were determined using a multi-stage cluster method using the Morgan table. The research tools included three questionnaires: Matson's Social Skills Assessment (1983), Rijsger et al.'s Academic Burnout Questionnaire (2020), and Davis's Empathy Questionnaire (1983). Data analysis was performed using IMOS software and structural equation modeling method at a confidence level of 95%. Considering that the significance level was less than 0.5 and other factors were constant, the path coefficient of social skills on empathy was 0.71, social skills on academic burnout was -0.29, empathy on academic burnout was -0.28, and social skills through empathy also had an effect on academic burnout of -0.196.

Keywords

Social skills
Academic boredom
Empathy
Subjects
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