Academic procrastination and factors contributing to its overcoming

Eva Nábělková, Jana Ratkovská
2015 The New Educational Review  
Procrastination is generally understood as the practice of irrationally putting activities or tasks off to a later time. In the case of academic procrastination, it is a tendency to put off academic tasks. Th e main objective of the presented research study was to map strategies of Slovak university students used for overcoming academic procrastination, as well as to test the relationship of procrastination with potential protective factors -volitional regulation and achievement motivation.
more » ... d on the results of our research, strategies of social motivation and positive attitude are, on average, the most frequently used to overcome academic procrastination. Results of the research also confi rmed a negative correlation of procrastination with volitional regulation and its dimensions, as well as with some dimensions of achievement motivation.
doi:10.15804/tner.2015.39.1.09 fatcat:hr4l7um2azgc7cjjywbwbv2bju