Attitudes toward Studying, Academic Procrastination and Multiple Mediation Analysis between Them

This study aims to examine vocational high school students’ attitudes towards studying (valuing studying, willing to study, studying as a habit), academic procrastination behaviors and causal mediation relationship among them. 278 students from three vocational high schools were participated in the study. Correlational research design was applied. In order to collect data, Aitken Academic Procrastination Inventory and Attitudes toward Studying Scale was used and in order to analyze data, ANOVA and multiple mediation analysis methods were utilized. Results showed that students value studying and willing to study but they do not have a tendency for studying as a habit in the same way. Attitudes of girls were more positive than boys and procrastination among girls were significantly lower than boys. Attitudes of students who prefer studying in the morning and afternoon have more positive attitudes towards studying and students who prefer studying in the evening tend to procrastinate more than the others. According to multiple mediation analysis results, when gender of students was controlled, valuing studying indirectly affects academic procrastination through willingness to study and studying as a habit