Abstract
The study was designed to investigate the prevalence and reasons for
academic procrastination in public university students. The sample
consisted of 200 university students including 155 women and 45 men
students from social and natural sciences departments. Academic
procrastination and reasons for it were measured by Procrastination
Assessment Scale for Students (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984a). Backward
linear regression analysis has shown that risk taking, task aversiveness,
and decision-making were significant predictors (reasons) for academic
procrastination while task aversiveness being strongest predictor with
medium level coefficient of regression. It was also revealed that
academic procrastination prevails at all three levels of education (MSc,
MPhil and PhD). Task aversiveness, time management, laziness,
rebellion against control, decision making, and lack of assertion were
more common reasons in students of social sciences than natural sciences
as shown by significant differences. Overall task aversiveness, fear of
failure, dependency, decision making and risk taking were common
reasons for indulging into academic procrastination.
*Safia Afzal, Humaira Jami. (2018) Prevalence of Academic Procrastination and Reasons for Academic Procrastination in University Students, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, Volume 28, Issue 1.
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