saadolla hashemi; moslem shahrokhi; mostafa khanzadeh; zeinab ahmadi; Akram Garosi
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to predict academic procrastination of the undergraduate students at Shahid Madani University of Azarbaijan based on perfectionism. Research method was descriptive and correlational study. Out of the undergraduate students 250 individuals (115 female and 135 male) ...
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The purpose of the present study was to predict academic procrastination of the undergraduate students at Shahid Madani University of Azarbaijan based on perfectionism. Research method was descriptive and correlational study. Out of the undergraduate students 250 individuals (115 female and 135 male) were selected as sample using stratified random sampling method. Subjects completed Solomon and Ruth Bloom's Academic Procrastination Scale (1984), Perfectionism Questionnaire (1991).Data analysis performed using statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, regression, simultaneous, stepwise regression. The results indicated that the self-oriented perfectionism predicts positively and significantly academic procrastination and other-oriented perfectionism is negatively and significantly predict academic procrastination. Given these findings, rising perfectionism among the undergraduate students will lead into increasing the amount of academic procrastination.
