title: The relationship among self-efficacy, perfectionism and academic burnout in medical school students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among academic self-efficacy, socially-prescribed perfectionism, and academic burnout in medical school students and to determine whether academic self-efficacy had a mediating role in the relationship between perfectionism and academic burnout.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 244 first-year and second-year premed medical students and first- to fourth-year medical students were enrolled in this study. As study tools, socially-prescribed perfectionism, academic self-efficacy, and academic burnout scales were utilized. For data analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Academic burnout had correlation with socially-prescribed perfectionism. It had negative correlation with academic self-efficacy. Socially-prescribed perfectionism and academic self-efficacy had 54% explanatory power for academic burnout. When socially-prescribed perfectionism and academic self-efficacy were simultaneously used as input, academic self-efficacy partially mediated the relationship between socially-prescribed perfectionism and academic burnout.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Socially-prescribed perfectionism had a negative effect on academic self-efficacy, ultimately triggering academic burnout. This suggests that it is important to have educational and counseling interventions to improve academic self-efficacy by relieving academic burnout of medical school students.
authors.affiliation: Office of Medical Education, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Ji Hye
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Office of Medical Education, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Su Jin
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chae
authors.affiliation: Office of Medical Education, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Ki Hong
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D000072639:Perfectionism; D010551:Personality; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012577:Schools, Medical; D012649:Self Concept; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Academic burnout; Academic self-efficacy; Perfectionism; Socially prescribed perfectionism
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