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  2. You have a notification: the role of push notifications in shaping students’ engagement, self-regulation and academic procrastination

    Bayram Berkay Mumcu, A. Çebi · 2025 · International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education · 568 citations

    The utilization of learning management systems has become pervasive in online learning processes within higher education, thereby underscoring the significance of students’ capacity to manage their learning processes effectively. Nevertheless, deficiencies in students’ self-regulation skills in online learning environments give rise to significant challenges, including poor time management and procrastination. This study aims to examine the effects of push notifications via mobile devices on students’ self-regulation, engagement, and academic procrastination behaviors. The study was a quasi-experimental intervention with 53 students enrolled at a state university. The intervention involved t

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  3. Bedtime procrastination: introducing a new area of procrastination

    Floor M. Kroese, Denise T. D. de Ridder, Catharine Evers, et al. · 2014 · Frontiers in Psychology · 406 citations

    BACKGROUND: Procrastination is a prevalent and problematic phenomenon that has mostly been studied in the domain of academic behavior. The current study shows that procrastination may also lead to harmful outcomes in the area of health behavior, introducing bedtime procrastination as an important factor related to getting insufficient sleep and consequently affecting individual well-being. Bedtime procrastination is defined as failing to go to bed at the intended time, while no external circumstances prevent a person from doing so. METHODS: To empirically support the conceptual introduction of bedtime procrastination, an online survey study was conducted among a community sample (N = 177). T

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  4. Academic procrastination in college students: The role of self-reported executive function

    Laura A. Rabin, Joshua Fogel, Katherine E. Nutter‐Upham · 2010 · Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology · 380 citations

    Procrastination, or the intentional delay of due tasks, is a widespread phenomenon in college settings. Because procrastination can negatively impact learning, achievement, academic self-efficacy, and quality of life, research has sought to understand the factors that produce and maintain this troublesome behavior. Procrastination is increasingly viewed as involving failures in self-regulation and volition, processes commonly regarded as executive functions. The present study was the first to investigate subcomponents of self-reported executive functioning associated with academic procrastination in a demographically diverse sample of college students aged 30 years and below (n = 212). We in

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  5. An Exploration of Problematic Smartphone Use among Chinese University Students: Associations with Academic Anxiety, Academic Procrastination, Self-Regulation and Subjective Wellbeing

    Zeyang Yang, Kathryn Asbury, Mark D. Griffiths · 2018 · International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction · 242 citations

    Over the past decade, there have been an increasing number of studies that have investigated problematic and/or ‘addictive’ smartphone use. The present study explored the prevalence and correlates of problematic smartphone use (PSU) among Chinese university students. Few studies have investigated relationships between PSU and factors such as academic anxiety, academic procrastination, self-regulation, and subjective wellbeing. The present study proposed and tested a hypothetical model of relationships between PSU and these factors. A total of 475 Chinese university students completed a paper-based survey during class breaks. The survey comprised a battery of psychometric scales translated in

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  6. The Impact of Online Graduate Students' Motivation and Self-Regulation on Academic Procrastination

    Glenda C. Rakes, Karee E. Dunn · 2010 · 232 citations

    With the rapid growth in online programs come concerns about how best to support student learning in this segment of the university population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of effort regulation, a self-regulatory skill, and intrinsic motivation on online graduate students ’ levels of academic procrastination, behavior that can adversely affect both the quality and quantity of student work. This research was guided by one primary question: Are online graduate students ’ intrinsic motivation and use of effort regulation strategies predictive of procrastination? Results indicated that as intrinsic motivation to learn and effort regulation decrease, procrastination inc

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  10. Academic Procrastinators and Their Self-Regulation

    Seung Won Park, Rayne A. Sperling · 2012 · Psychology · 117 citations

    Previous procrastination research has provided considerable support for procrastination as a failure of self-regulation. However, procrastination has rarely been examined in relation to models of self-regulated learning. The purpose of this study was to understand the motives and reasons for academic procrastination from a self-regulated learning perspective. The current study employed a mixed-methods design in which participants completed several survey instruments of academic procrastination, self-regulation, and academic motivation and participated in semi-structured interviews. Findings indicated that academic procrastination was related to poor self-regulatory skills and defensive behav

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  11. Reasons of Academic Procrastination: Self-regulation, Academic Self-efficacy, Life Satisfaction and Demographics Variables

    Mehmet Kandemir · 2014 · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · 103 citations

    The behavior of academic procrastination is quite common among students. Students can not show their real performances in learning processes and they fail because of procrastination behaviors. Determining the reasons of this behavior can decrease students’ behaviors and help them show their performances. In this context, the goal of this research is to determine how the variables of self-regulation, self-efficacy, life satisfaction, hope and other descriptive variables, which are mentioned in the related literature about academic procrastination, explain academic procrastination behavior in the regression model. Descriptive survey model and availability sampling model are used in order to re

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  12. Effects of academic self-regulation on procrastination, academic stress and anxiety, resilience and academic performance in a sample of Spanish secondary school students

    Antonio Ragusa, J. González-Bernal, R. Trigueros, et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Psychology · 95 citations

    Introduction One of the biggest challenges facing students today is procrastination, which is closely related to stress, anxiety and, in the most severe cases, depression. The aim of the present study is to analyze the influence of academic self-regulation on procrastination, academic anxiety and stress, academic resilience and academic performance. Method The sample consisted of 991 high school students aged between 16 and 19 years (M = 17.25; SD = 3.45). A structural equation model was used to analyze the relationship between the study variables. Results Analyzes showed that academic self-regulation negatively predicted procrastination. In turn, procrastination positively predicted academi

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  13. Predicting academic procrastination of students based on academic self-efficacy and emotional regulation difficulties

    Hamidreza Farhadi Rad, Shima Bordbar, Jamshid Bahmaei, et al. · 2025 · Scientific Reports · 43 citations

    Academic procrastination is one of the major factors that can be a serious obstacle for students to achieve academic progress and success. This research aimed to investigate and predict academic procrastination based on academic self-efficacy and emotional regulation difficulties of students of one of the medical sciences universities in southern Iran in 2024. This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 290 students of different fields in the south of Iran between January and April 2024. Data was collected using standard questionnaires of academic procrastination, academic self-efficacy, and difficulty in emotional regulation. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pea

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  14. Young University Students’ Academic Self-Regulation Profiles and Their Associated Procrastination: Autonomous Functioning Requires Self-Regulated Operations

    Rafael Valenzuela, Nuria Codina, I. Castillo, et al. · 2020 · Frontiers in Psychology · 42 citations

    Students’ autonomous self-regulation requires not only self-motivation but also volition or transforming motivation into specific behavioral intentions and following through. Self-regulation includes self-motivation (i.e., goal setting, learning from mistakes) and volitional regulation (i.e., strategic decision making). Furthermore, individual differences, like trait-level perseverance, significantly influence both motivation and volition. Procrastination has been defined as a volitional self-regulation problem, which involves delaying what one had intended to do, in spite of being motivated, and regardless of anticipating adverse consequences. Thus, it is a tendency toward dysregulated beha

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  17. Self-Regulation in Academic Success: Exploring the Impact of Volitional Control Strategies, Time Management Planning, and Procrastination

    Abílio Afonso Lourenço, Maria Olimpia Paiva · 2024 · International Journal of Changes in Education · 14 citations

    Theoretical foundations in recent years emphasize that a significant number of students globally continue to exhibit a lack of commitment and motivation in school activities, leading to diminished proficiency levels in specific areas of study. The magnitude of this phenomenon, coupled with its evident social implications, suggests that we are facing restlessness and a growing demand for urgent answers and results. In the educational context, the sociocognitive perspective conceives the construct of self-regulation for learning as the management and mastery of a set of factors that emerge as crucial elements for high-quality learning and, predictably, academic success. To achieve this success

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  18. Exploring academic procrastination: Perceptions, self-regulation, and consequences

    Lea Shaked, Haia Altarac · 2022 · Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice · 14 citations

    This qualitative study examines academic procrastination among Israeli Master of Education students writing their theses. The majority of the the participants (80% of the 145) reported behaving differently on this task than on other assignments. One of the primary factors influencing procrastination derives from the complexity of the assignment. Considering the research literature describes tight relationships between academic procrastination and academic achievement, one surprising finding concerns the fact that respondents saw no relationship between their procrastination and their final grade. A gap was found between students’ self-perception and their actual performance. Approximately 75

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  19. Shyness and academic procrastination among Chinese adolescents: a moderated mediation model of self-regulation and self-focused attention

    Hong Sun, Yang Yu, C. Peng · 2024 · Frontiers in Psychology · 9 citations

    Academic procrastination is a common concern among adolescents, but the correlation between shyness and academic procrastination and the internal mechanisms have not yet been thoroughly investigated. Based on a questionnaire survey with 1,279 Chinese middle school students, this study examined the effect of shyness on academic procrastination and its underlying mechanism of self-regulation and self-focused attention. Results revealed that: (1) shyness significantly predicted academic procrastination. (2) Self-regulation mediated the relationship between shyness and academic procrastination. (3) Self-focused attention played a moderating role in the first half of this mediation process. Speci

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  20. SELF-EFFICACY AND SELF-REGULATION WITH ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION IN MUSLIM ADOLESCENTS DURING THE ONLINE LEARNING PERIOD

    Syilma Aulia Syapira, Budiman Budiman, Mohd Nasir Selamat · 2022 · Psikis : Jurnal Psikologi Islami · 9 citations

    This study aims to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and self-regulation with academic procrastination in Muslim adolescents during online learning. The research method used in this research is correlational quantitative. The subjects of this study were Muslim adolescents in one of the public high schools in Palembang. The sample of this study was 298 people taken by quota sampling technique. The instruments used are the self-efficacy, self-regulation, and academic procrastination scale. The results of data analysis with multiple regression analysis (assisted by SPSS version 26) showed that there was a significant relationship between self-efficacy and self-regulation with aca

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  22. The mediation roles of self-regulation and problematic internet use: How maladaptive parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic influenced adolescents' academic procrastination in the postpandemic era.

    He Xiao, Jian Mao, Jiarong Chen, et al. · 2024 · Journal of adolescence · 7 citations

    INTRODUCTION In the transition to the postpandemic era, adolescents are working to shift their focus back to school. However, the prevalence of academic procrastination is reflective of that the aftereffects of the pandemic are persisting. Literature documents the increases in the negative parenting behaviors and internet use of adolescents during the pandemic. The excessive internet use has to do with adolescents' self-regulatory capabilities and self-regulation is profoundly shaped by parents' parenting practices. Given the connections among these factors, the present study seeks to understand how maladaptive parenting practices during the pandemic influenced adolescents' academic procrast

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  23. The Influence of Self-Regulation and Time Management on Student Academic Procrastination

    Ahmad Chandra Jaya, Mami Hajaroh, Eva Imania Eliasa · 2025 · Jurnal Ilmiah Bimbingan Konseling Undiksha · 5 citations

    The problem in this study is academic procrastination that many students face and has a negative impact on academic achievement, where the main factors that play a role in reducing it are self-regulation, which helps students control behavior, emotions, and motivation, and time management, which allows students to organize and utilize time effectively. This study aims to analyze the relationship between self-regulation and time management on students' academic procrastination. This study used a quantitative approach with a correlational design and involved 95 students as samples. Data were collected through a scale of self-regulation, time management, and academic procrastination, then analy

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  24. Self-Regulation as a Mediator Between Learning Motivation and Academic Procrastination in Students Who Are Preparing a Thesis

    Aulia Aulia, Dewi Fortuna Septiantika, D. Perdana, et al. · 2024 · International Journal of Islamic Educational Psychology · 4 citations

    Academic procrastination is the failure to complete an academic task within the desired timeframe or postpone the task until the last moment. Academic procrastination can be reduced if students have good self-regulation and motivation. This study aims to empirically test the role of learning motivation in academic procrastination with self-regulation as a mediator. This study uses a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional study. The population in this study is students who are working on a thesis, have worked on at least one semester, and are active in organizations. Sampling was done using purposive sampling techniques. The instruments used are the learning motivation scale, the academ

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