OBJECTIVE Approximately 66-80%of graduate students experience statistics anxiety and some researchers propose that many students identify statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing courses in their academic curriculums. As such, it is likely that statistics anxiety is, in part, responsible for many students delaying enrollment in these courses for as long as possible. This paper proposes a...

To better understand procrastination, researchers have sought to identify cognitive personality factors associated with it. The study reported here attempts to extend previous research by exploring the application of explanatory style to academic procrastination. Findings of the study are discussed from the perspective of employers of this new generation.

In English, two deictic space-time metaphors are in common usage: the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time and the Moving Time metaphor conceptualizes time as moving forward toward the ego (Clark, 1973). Although earlier research investigating the psychological reality of these metaphors has typically examined spatial influences on temporal reasoning (e.g., ...

Gender differences in various psychological constructs are a common phenomenon. This study has been designed to investigate the gender differences if any, in the reasons given for academic procrastination in undergraduate students. For this purpose, 200 high academic procrastinators (113 males and 87 females) in the age group 17-19 years were selected by administering PAAS. The frequency of the...

Purpose The present research was based on an online questionnaire. A total of 256 undergraduate psychology students aged 18–44 ( M = 23.61; SD 0.57) from the Pontifical Catholic University Argentina took part in study (137 women; 53.3%). sociodemographic and academic survey locally adapted versions Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI), Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ...

Abstract Procrastination refers to the voluntary delay of urgent tasks and can have several negative consequences such as stress, health issues academic under-achievement. Several factors including personality, culture gender been identified predictors procrastination, although there are some conflicting findings within literature. Social networking sites a possible facilitator in part due thei...

The present study seeks to ascertain whether the academic procrastination of university pre-service teachers varied during COVID-19 pandemic when compared data collected from another sample (n = 794) taken before pandemic, and reasons that might explain this. 910 responded PASS scale, Academic Procrastination Scale, Unintentional Active New General Self-Efficacy Scale pandemic. results reflect ...