摘要：Purpose: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. Conclusion: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.
