The Relationship Between Aacademic Motivation and Sself-Eefficacy with Aacademic Procrastination in the Students of Medical University of Jondishapour Ahvaz
Authors
- Ezatollah Ghadampour
- Peyman Kamkar
- Saeideh Sabzian
- Attefeh Chehelpar
- Samaneh Abdoli
- Hoshang Garavand
Abstract
Academic procrastination is one of the prevalence variables in students and the varibles affecting it, such as academic motivation and self efficacy should be examined. Thus, the target of this study was to investigate the relationship between academic motivation and self-efficacy with academic procrastination in the Students of Medical University of Jondishapour Ahvaz. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The population of the study was all of students of Medical University of Jondishapour Ahvaz during the academic year 2013-2014. Using proportional stratified sampling method, the sample induring of 259 persons was selected. In order to collect data, academic motivation Scale, College Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (CASES) and Academic Procrastination were used. For analyzing data, descriptive (Mean and standard deviation) and inferential (correlation and regression, independent T, ANOVA and MANOVA) statistics were used. Results showed that there was not a significant relationship between academic motivation and sub-components of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation with academic procrastination and its components. In addition, there was a significant negative correlation between academic self-efficacy with academic procrastination and its components. Results of simple regression showed that academic procrastination was predictable from academic self-efficacy. Results of T test and MANOVA showed that there was no significant difference between male and female students in terms of academic procrastination and its components. According to research findings, professors and education professionals can predict the academic procrastination of learner if they are aware of their academic self-efficacy.
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