Open AccessAcademic procrastination' relation to undesirable behaviours among faculty members from the students' perspective
Author(s) -
Fadi Soud Samawi,
Asri A. Alramamna,
Bilal A. Alkhatib,
Nedal Ahmad Alghafary
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cypriot journal of educational sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.22
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1305-905X
pISSN - 1305-9076
DOI - 10.18844/cjes.v16i6.6499
Subject(s) - procrastination , psychology , viewpoints , perspective (graphical) , association (psychology) , likert scale , descriptive statistics , sample (material) , social psychology , applied psychology , developmental psychology , art , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , visual arts , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , computer science
Background: Academic procrastination had been reported widely to be in association with unwanted behaviours among university students. However, this association was not studied extensively in higher educational institutions. Aim: This research aimed to measure the level of academic procrastination among college students and the unwanted behaviours among faculty members from students' viewpoints. Method: The research sample consisted of 430 students randomly selected for the summer semester 2016/2017 using the descriptive correlation approach. An instrument to measure academic procrastination was developed to achieve the aims of the research. Results: The findings indicated that the level of academic procrastination was medium, whereas unwanted behaviours were high. The findings result showed a negative association between academic procrastination and unwanted behaviours. One of the most dimensions of unwanted behaviours that forecasted academic procrastination is the dimension of managing and organising classrooms.
Keywords: Academic procrastination; educational psychology; descriptive approach; university students/Jordan; unwanted
behaviours.