Journal Article10.1007/S10212-012-0143-4
Exploring reasons and consequences of academic procrastination: an interview study
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated reasons and consequences of academic procrastination and explored whether students seeking help from student counselling services (counselling group) report more serious reasons of academic regret than students who procrastinate but seek no counselling support (non-counseling group).
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Abstract: In the present study, we broadly investigated reasons and consequences of academic procrastination. Additionally, we explored whether students seeking help from student counselling services to overcome academic procrastination (counselling group) report more serious reasons and consequences of academic procrastination than students who procrastinate but seek no counselling support (non-counselling group). We conducted standardized interviews with university students (N = 36, of which 16 belonged to the counselling group) and analysed these using qualitative content analysis and frequency analysis. The reasons and consequences of academic procrastination, each summarized in a separate category system, were manifold. The category systems consisted of 20 main categories in total, subsuming 81 subcategories, of which 32 were inductively developed. The counselling group reported more serious reasons and consequences of academic procrastination than the non-counselling group. Our results suggest considering academic procrastination as a self-regulation failure and contribute to constructing interventions tailored to students’ specific needs.
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