Academic procrastination of 1st-year students: psychological aspects and characteristics
https://doi.org/10.23947/2658-7165-2021-4-4-6-26
Abstract
The article presents the results of a study of aspects of academic procrastination among first-year university students.
The Introduction contains the definition of academic procrastination, a typical example of the situation in which a procrastinating student is, approaches to understanding the nature of procrastination, the extent of this phenomenon and its possible causes. The novelty of the research lies in the study of aspects of academic procrastination of 1st year students in connection with their life-meaning orientations.
The section "Methods" describes the main methods of empirical research: questionnaire by the author, “Purpose-In-Life Test” by D. A. Leont’ev, “General Procrastination Scale for students” by C. H. Lay. The data were processed using the Mann-Whitney U-test and correlation analysis. The sample included 46 students of the 1st-year of the university at the age of 18–21 years.
The section "Results" presents the findings of studying the characteristics of academic procrastination in five directions: manifestations, reasons, emotions, consequences for the educational process, and ways to overcome the state of procrastination. Using the Mann-Whitney U-test, the absence of differences between "situational" and "chronic" procrastinating students was determined in connection with life-meaning orientations. Correlation analysis showed a significant inverse relationship (-0.338, at r = 0.05) between the data according to the questionnaire by C. H. Lay and the general level of meaningfulness of life according to the PIL test.
The section "Discussion of the results" provides a comparison of the results obtained with the data of studies by foreign authors and the data of our previous study.
The Conclusion summarizes the findings of our study and raises the question of the experimental nature of future studies in this direction. This should contribute to understanding the nature of students' academic procrastination and how to reduce its impact on the learning process.
About the Author
D. I. Popova
Southern Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Darya I. Popova
Rostov-on-Don
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