Amidst the Online Learning Modality: The Self-Efficacy and Its Relationship to the Academic Burnout of Senior High School Students

At all levels of the educational system, academic burnout has been a timely and significant problem among students, especially in online learning amidst COVID 19 pandemic. The sudden transition from face-to-face classes to online learning had made such meaningful impacts on students' efficacy and academe.  Thus, students faced difficulties in adapting to the undesired and abrupt shift to online learning, which causes a lack of psychological capabilities to manage their academic needs, suffers a high level of academic stress and low efficacy, and gains vulnerability to psychosocial disturbances and burnout. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy and academic burnout among students here in the Philippines. The statistical findings show a significant relationship between self-efficacy and academic burnout (r = .168) with an associated probability value of 0.05 alpha level of significance.