Mediating effects of academic self-efficacy and smartphone addiction on the relationship between professional attitude and academic burnout in nursing students: A cross-sectional study

•The Areas of Worklife Scale helps explain the mechanism of academic burnout•Professional attitude, academic self-efficacy and smartphone addiction are directly related to academic burnout•Academic self-efficacy and smartphone addiction mediates the relationship between professional attitude and academic burnout•Compound strategies can be incorporated into nursing education system to alleviate academic burnout