The impact of career calling on medical students’ academic burnout: a chain mediation model
Huanhuan Zhao, Jing Chen, Zengli Zou · 2026
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Huanhuan Zhao and two colleagues surveyed 2,103 medical students in 2026 to test how a sense of calling in medicine relates to academic burnout. A career calling means feeling drawn to medicine as a purpose rather than merely a job, and burnout here covers exhaustion and disengagement from study. The team asked whether two middle factors, feeling connected to nature and feeling supported by others, carry part of that link, either alone or in a chain.
Using validated scales and a mediation analysis with 5,000 resampled estimates, they found that a stronger calling predicted lower burnout. Both nature connection and perceived social support each carried part of the effect on their own. A chain also ran from calling through nature connection and then social support to lower burnout. The practical hint is that schools might ease burnout by building time outdoors and genuine peer support into training.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Huanhuan Zhao, Jing Chen, Zengli Zou |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |