Academic self-efficacy as a predictor toward decisional procrastination among college students preparing a thesis in Indonesia
Author(s) -
Thoyyibatus Sarirah,
Saputri Arifsa Chaq
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of advanced research in social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2597-7040
pISSN - 2579-8480
DOI - 10.26500/jarssh-04-2019-0104
Subject(s) - procrastination , psychology , self efficacy , academic achievement , social psychology , mathematics education , developmental psychology , medical education , medicine
Preparing a thesis often becomes a load by college students and finally they procrastinate to do it. On this research aimed to know how academic self-efficacy had a role on decisional procrastination towards college students preparing a thesis. 120 college students were taken as respondents by purposif sampling technique. the instruments were academic self-efficacy scale adopted by Bandura (1977) and The Melbourne Decision-Making Questionnaire (Mann, Burnett, Radford, & Ford, 1997). The result of data analysis by using simple regression found that academic self-efficacy influenced significantly on decisional procrastination toward college students preparing a thesis.
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