SCHOOL AS IF A WORKPLACE: EXPLORING BURNOUT AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

The current research examines whether school burnout, which may be seen in high school students, varies or

not in relation to such variables as gender, grade point average, grade level and the students’ status of

attending to private tutoring. The study is designed in survey research model and the study group consists of

728 students studying in 3 different types of high schools located in 4 different regions of Turkey. Findings

show that the school burnout which students experience varies in relation to such variables as gender, grade

point average, grade level and the students’ status of attending to private tutoring (dershane). Based on these

findings, male students are a higher-risk group in terms of school burnout. Students with low grade point

averages are a higher-risk group in terms of school burnout. The risk of school burnout increases as the grade

level is higher. Attending to private tutoring causes school burnout in students in some respects while it also

protects students against school burnout in other respects. According to these findings loss of interest in

school, burnout due to doing homework and burnout due to studying grade averages are higher in the

students who attend to private tutoring while burnout due to family and deficiencies in school and need for

relaxation and entertainment grade averages are higher in the students who do not attend to private tutoring.