Study Demands-Resources Model of Student Engagement and Burnout

To piece empirical studies on student engagement together, this chapter uses the framework presented in the Study Demands-Resources (SD-R) model. The SD-R model offers a comprehensive view on engagement, demands, resources, and outcomes, and on the interplay of various antecedents. Unlike previous frameworks, the SD-R model endorses the duality of the contextual, personal, and social features (i.e., demands and resources), and the following processes leading from engagement to high motivation, performance, and well-being (i.e., motivational process) or from student burnout and exhaustion to decreased well-being (i.e., energy-depleting process), and thus highlights the synergistic relationships among the different features of the model. In addition, this chapter sheds light on the role of socio-emotional skills as resources of student engagement. Moreover, some future directions in the field of engagement research using the SD-R framework will be addressed.