Academic procrastinators : people who lack motivation and self-regulation.

• Main Author: Ng, Wei Yang.
• Other Authors: Qiu Zi Qiang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50926
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Academic procrastination according to reviewed literature is a pretty common phenomenon and a relatively detrimental and negative habit when it interacts with the performing of academic tasks. In most studies, academic procrastination poses anxiety problems causing individuals to feel fatigue and cause them to not be able to complete academic task before the given headline. Academic procrastination as some researchers bring forward, are mainly contributed by the low level of motivation involved with performing of the academic tasks. Low self-regulation of the self also contributes to the high tendency of academic procrastination. Despite a majority of studies done on observing the negative outcomes brought about by academic procrastination, the concept may in fact be conducive for academic task completion in some contexts. Active procrastination orientation gives individuals the much needed motivation to endure throughout the academic task and even more so when faced with a time constraint. Passive procrastination does not work as well in comparison but can still turn out positive outcomes if it a task-approach is utilized. Much more is needed to be researched in the fundamental theories of academic procrastination. One such approach is to generalize the study on the general population and also using new study methods in order to collect data accuracy and validity. These approaches serve to help in setting the grounding fundamentals of the still unfixed concept of academic procrastination.