Balancing demands and resources toward better flourishing and life satisfaction: a two-wave path analysis of school burnout and teens' resilience

Introduction

Teens' anxiety-related issues and more generally adolescents' mental health problems are a growing global concern. These extend to the school domain, where adolescents can suffer from school-burnout. The school-adapted version of the Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R), incorporated with the construct of resilience, might provide with an explanatory framework in regard this field of health. Our first aim was to investigate the predictive relations between all of the variables displayed in the model - that is, the role of optimism, perceived demands and resources, on school burnout and resilience and, in turn, the impact of these latter on flourishing and life satisfaction. Our second aim was to confirm the adequacy of such an alternative framework (i.e., the school-adapted version of the JD-R integrating the resilience construct and some of its known features).