International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education
Vol 2, No 1 (2018): International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education

Exploring the Role of Self-Control on Student Procrastination

Hariz Enggar Wijaya (Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta)
Arief Rahman Tori (Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
17 May 2018

Abstract

Procrastination is widespread across the nation and setting.  Its occur commonly in an academic setting which has many demands and deadline.  One of the variable construct which reported has a high association with procrastination is self-control.  It is why we would like to find out the role of self-control on student procrastination.  There were 100 undergraduate students enrolled this study, from religious education faculty of a private university in Yogyakarta.  Pure Procrastination Scale, Procrastination Academic Scale for Student, and Brief Self-Control Scale were administered to obtain student procrastination and self-control. Results showed that self-control correlates moderately negative with both of general and academic procrastination. Also, self-control could predict procrastination both in an academic and general setting. As an additional, there were significantly different between the lowest and highest procrastination group based on student self-control, with big size-effect reported.  For further analysis, the prevalence of six areas of academic procrastination also discuss.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijrice

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education (IJRiCE) ISSN: 2620-5769 (Electronic), ISSN: 2620-5750 (Print), is a peer-reviewed, counseling and education journal published by Universitas Negeri Padang (UNP) in collaboration with Indonesian Counselor Association (IKI). The aim of ...