Procrastination in college students - Summary

Procrastination in college students - Summary

Procrastination that refers to the deliberate delay of the due tasks is a common occurrence in colleges. For the fact that procrastination may pose negative impacts on the quality of life, academic self efficacy, achievement, and learning, this study has attempted to present an understanding of the factors which establish and keep up this niggling attitude. Procrastination is greatly considered as entailing failures in violation and self regulation, which are generally considered as executive functions. This research is the first ever study carried out for the purpose of investigating the subcomponents of self reported executive functioning allied to the academic procrastination. This research was conducted on a sample of two hundred and twelve college students that was demographically diverse and encompassing ages up to thirty years.

All the nine aspects of executive functioning were included in various regression models which additionally entailed several psychiatric medical characteristics, conscientiousness, neuroticism, anxiety, depression, and estimated IQ. The important indicators of academic procrastination were lower conscientiousness and increased age along with the domains of executive function including; organization of materials, task monitor, working memory, self- monitor, inhibit, organize/plan, and initiation. The results derived from the research develop and boost the comprehension of neuropsychological correlations of procrastination and might lead to practicable interventions or suggestions for reducing its negative impacts on the welfare and academic performance of students (Laura, et.al, 2011).

Any particular hypothesis was not generated pertaining to the association amongst procrastination and drug/alcohol use, ethnicity, age, gender, and several psychiatric/medical conditions, provided the evasively natured findings or lack of research on such variables. The sample for the research was acquired from a greater sample of two hundred and forty three persons. Data collection was conducted in classrooms as well as in a psychology laboratory. For each ...