Procrastination, stress and academic performance in students

Abstract

As postponing action strategy, for the last moment the procrastination is one of the factors causing the problems in study. The objective of the study is identification of links between indicators of academic procrastination, stressors, responses to stressors and academic achievements. The research was implemented on the base of sample which amounted 435 from 17 to 25 years old (М age = 19,03). The comparative procrastination analysis among groups of students with different levels of academic performance has shown that student with low level of achievement are inclined to more often suffer from procrastination, be lazy impulsively make a decision during the establishing of their personal time, care frustration, stress and anger. The correlation analysis data allow for the conclusion that a high level of procrastination is related to stress and academic failure. The analyse of links between procrastinations and stressors, and also reactions on it among students has shown that the higher the social anxiety, failure avoidance, procrastination frequency, lazy, worse perfectionism and impulsive, the higher he values all stressors and impressive of reactions on it. In this way, academic procrastination impedes the effectiveness of student study, effects on performance, contributes to stress, that undoubtedly impacts on professional development of future specialists.

Analysis of Factors Causing Academic Procrastination in Students

“…While psychological conditions are influenced by several things such as self-regulation, self-confidence, motivation, and selfesteem. External factors are factors that come from outside the individual, such as parenting patterns, and supervisory controls either in the family or school environment (Kuftyak, 2022). Based on the results of interviews with 70 respondents, several research findings were obtained, namely: 1) two factors cause student academic procrastination, namely internal factors and external factors, 2) Internal factors that cause academic procrastination, namely: habits, bad time management, laziness, and fatigue experienced by students, 3) External factors that cause academic procrastination, namely: work and assignments that are difficult to understand.…”

Predicting School Anxiety Based on Procrastination, Attachment to Parents, and Students' Personality Traits

“…The fact that humans prefer to engage in pleasureinducing behaviors and avoid painful ones, rather than thinking about the long-term effects of their decisions and behaviors, refers to the pleasure principle in psychoanalytic theory. Procrastination and delaying can be considered a serious behavioral problem when it has the following characteristics: it reduces efficiency, exists in essential tasks and activities, and generally leads to delays in activities (Kuftyak, 2022).…”

Relationship Between Stress Level and Academic Grade in Medical Students of Universitas Airlangga

“…The relationship between students, especially female students, and their mothers also plays an important role in shaping self-esteem, which greatly affects the stress level of students [11]. The usage of foreign languages in study and procrastination in task completion might also cause stress [12]. Excessive levels of stress can cause physical and mental problems, lower self-esteem, and interfere with academic achievement [11,13].…”