Examination of the relationship between helicopter parenting attitude, cognitive flexibility and school burnout in high school students.

In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between school burnout, cognitive flexibility and perceived helicopter parental attitude among high school students. The research group consisted of 525 high school students studying in Aksaray Province in 2022-2023. Data were collected using the School Burnout Scale, Cognitive Flexibility Scale, Perceived Helicopter Parental Attitude (HPPA) Scale and Personal Information Form. In this study, a relational model was used to examine the relationship between school burnout, cognitive flexibility and perceived helicopter parenting attitude of high school students. Ttest, one-way analysis of variance and simple linear regression analysis were used to analyze the data. When the results obtained are examined, it is seen that school burnout and cognitive flexibility do not differ significantly according to gender, grade level and perceived financial status of the family, and school burnout does not differ significantly according to perceived school success and cognitive flexibility does not differ significantly according to perceived parental attitudes. Perceived helicopter parenting attitude showed a significant difference according to gender, perceived financial status of the family and number of siblings, while it did not show a significant difference according to grade level. Cognitive flexibility significantly and negatively predicts school burnout, perceived helicopter mother attitude (in basic confidence and life skills issues and emotional personal life issues) sub-dimensions and perceived helicopter father attitude (in emotional personal life issues and ethical-moral issues) sub-dimensions significantly and positively predict school burnout; perceived helicopter mother attitude (academic/school life issues and ethical-moral issues) sub- dimensions and perceived helicopter father attitude (academic/school life issues) subdimension significantly and negatively predicted school burnout (low sense of accomplishment) sub-dimension; Perceived helicopter father attitude (basic trust and life skills issues) sub-dimension significantly and positively predicted school burnout (depersonalization and low sense of accomplishment) sub-dimensions and all subdimensions of perceived helicopter parent attitude significantly and negatively predicted cognitive flexibility. Keywords: School Burnout, Cognitive Flexibility, Perceived Helicopter Parent Attitude