The Relationship between Postgraduates’ Academic Procrastination and Psychodynamic Variables

DOI

10.2991/icemss.2013.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

academic procrastination, achievement motivation, goal orientation, academic self-efficacy

Abstract

Academic procrastination refers to the tendency to procrastinate academic tasks, and the concomitant negative emotions. Based on questionnaire surveys of 305 postgraduate students, the study investigated the relationship between academic procrastination and three psychodynamic variables- achievement motivation, goal orientation and academic self-efficacy through path analyses. Main results included: (1) Academic procrastination is a common phenomenon among the postgraduates, nearly 60% of them having the procrastination tendency, while almost all of them having the desire to reduce procrastination. The female postgraduates showed a higher level of academic procrastination than the male postgraduates. (2) Academic procrastination level is correlated with different dimensions of the three psychodynamic variables. (3) The psychodynamic variables contribute to academic procrastination level by three ways. First, achievement motivation, goal orientation, and academic self-efficacy directly contribute to academic procrastination negatively. Second, goal orientation and academic self-efficacy contribute to academic procrastination through achievement motivation. Third, goal orientation contributes to achievement motivation through academic self-efficacy, which then contributes to academic procrastination. Achievement motivation may act as a mediating factor. Implications for educators were discussed based on these findings.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Naiyi Wang
AU  - Ping He
AU  - Qian Li
PY  - 2013/08
DA  - 2013/08
TI  - The Relationship between Postgraduates’ Academic Procrastination and Psychodynamic Variables
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Education, Management and Social Science (ICEMSS-13)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 54
EP  - 57
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemss.2013.16
DO  - 10.2991/icemss.2013.16
ID  - Wang2013/08
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