article history: received date: 25 september, 2016 review date: 12 october 2016 accepted date:23 november 2016 printed on line: 5 january purpose the aim of the present study was to study the impact of meta cognitive skills training on the reduction of academic procrastination and anxiety exam in male students. material & method: statistical population in this study consisted of all high school...

During the 2003-2008 school years, a multi-drafting teaching method was tried and formalized in a rural college in Israel using the HighLearn MCL web-based environment. The aim of the current study was to determine the influence of procrastination and anxiety on students’ attitudes toward multi-drafting teaching methods. The research was based on three self-evident questionnaires: (1) Multi-dra...

We examined college students' procrastination when studying for weekly in-class quizzes. Two schedules of online practice quiz delivery were compared using a multiple baseline design. When online study material was made available noncontingently, students usually procrastinated. When access to additional study material was contingent on completing previous study material, studying was more even...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a topic of increasing interest in the field language and instruction. In this study, we set out to investigate relationship between students' use SRL strategies second (L2) writing, their L2 writing engagement, procrastination. Data were collected from college students mainland China ( N = 816) related strategy use, for was found be an important predictor studen...

Productive procrastination replaces one adaptive behavior with another adaptive-albeit less important-behavior (e.g., organizing notes instead of studying for an exam). We identified adaptive and maladaptive procrastination styles associated with academic and alcohol outcomes in 1106 college undergraduates. Cluster analysis identified five academic procrastination styles-non-procrastinators, ac...

BACKGROUND Procrastination, to voluntarily delay an intended course of action despite expecting to be worse-off for the delay, is a persistent behavior pattern that can cause major psychological suffering. Approximately half of the student population and 15%-20% of the adult population are presumed having substantial difficulties due to chronic and recurrent procrastination in their everyday li...

Students all around the globe face problems such as academic procrastination and peer pressure due to a lack of commitment, emotional stress, inappropriate time management, guidance. This research examines impact teachers’ attunement on among university students. A convenient sampling technique was used collect data. The objective study investigate relationship between teacher attunement, procr...

Procrastination is a common problem, but defining and measuring it has been subject to some debate. This paper summarizes results from students and employees (N = 2893) in Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, and Sweden using the Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS) and the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS; Steel, 2010), both assumed to measure unidimensional and closely related constructs...