Predictors of Academic Procrastinatıon In Unıversity Students: Academic Motivation, Hope and Personality

Abstract

This study addressed the variables of academic motivation, hope, and personality characteristics as predictors of academic procrastination among university students. The participants of the study consisted of 659 university students studying at a university in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey and selected from the students who volunteered to participate in the study. The Academic Procrastination Scale, the Academic Motivation Scale, Hope Scale, the Adjective-Based Personality Scale and the Personal Information Form were used to collect data. Employing the relational research model, the study used the SPSS-22 program to analyze the data with a .05 significance level of accepted. Correlation analysis was performed to understand the relationship between the variables, and hierarchical regression analysis was performed to determine the variables' prediction level of academic procrastination. The results concluded that university students' academic procrastination behavior differed significantly according to students' gender, grade level, and faculty type, and that male students procrastinated more than female students. Another finding of the study was that academic motivation, responsibility, extroversion, and openness to experience significantly predicted academic procrastination. According to the study data, hope and personality's neuroticism and agreeableness dimensions did not have a significant effect on academic procrastination.