2024年5月6日发(作者：wifi显示不可上网)

A Research in academic Procrastination of

Undergraduates in *********University

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Abstract

Academic procrastination was relatively popular among Chinese college students and had

negative effects on the students’ learning, emotion and life. Using the questionnaire, this

study explored the situation and the causes of academic procrastination. The samples are 73

undergraduates from *****university. Results revealed that male undergraduates were more

likely to have assignment procrastination than the females did, while the female

undergraduates experienced more negative feelings caused by procrastination. There was a

sharp rise in assignment procrastination among the juniors, indicating junior was a key

transforming period of the total growing of undergraduates’ academic procrastination. Low

motivation to learn, lack of time management skills, negative emotions, perfectionism, and

laziness were the main reasons that accounted for undergraduates’ academic procrastination,

while the task and environment characteristics did not show significant impacts on the

procrastinators.

Key words : academic procrastination; undergraduates; causes

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