Abstract

We used structural equation modeling to analyze data from 298 high school students in South Korea to investigate the relationship between student-perceived teachers’ calling and students’ academic burnout and the mediating effects of student-perceived need-supportive teaching and students’ basic psychological need satisfaction. The results showed that student-perceived teachers’ calling was not directly related to students’ academic burnout and that student-perceived need-supportive teaching mediated the indirect negative relationship between student-perceived teachers’ calling and students’ academic burnout. Furthermore, student-perceived need-supportive teaching and students’ basic psychological need satisfaction sequentially mediated the indirect negative relationship between student-perceived teachers’ calling and students’ academic burnout. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed based on these results.