Factors of Procrastination Among University Students

OUTLINE

Theme: Procrastination among University Students.

Introduction

• Procrastination is the delaying of a task that was originally planned despite expecting to be worse off for the delay (van Eerde, 2003)
• May be intentional, incidental or habitual but significantly affects learning and achievement of university students.
• It slows down the performance of students making them careless, lazy, passive and irresponsible.
• To discuss the factors of procrastination among university students life nowadays

Point 1: Poor time management skills

• Students are unable to set priorities of their work and task.
• Tend to do works that are less important rather than doing the works that are need to do first
• Unplanned study schedule - not set plan to do their task and make them difficult to complete the tasks on time
• University students procrastinate in their academic studies because of the poor time management skills.

Point 2: Attitude

• Lack of self-discipline- to complete the task that are assigned to them.
• They do not give commitment to their works and prefer to do activities that are not important such as playing video games, and watching television.
• It will create anxiety and stress when the deadline comes and may feel impossible to complete the tasks.
• Perfectionism- personality where students set high standards for themselves
• And they fear of not meeting those standards
• So students’ attitude is one the reasons students procrastinate.

Point 3: Task difficulty

• They do not know what to do – students unsure how to start a work
• Mastering knowledge and concept that may be new challenging to them.
• Lots of works and assignments to do that need them to think critically.
• Lecturers predict the students can do the tasks given to them
• So, task difficulty also can lead the university students to do procrastination

Conclusion

• The discussion has shown that poor time management skills, attitude and task difficulty are the reasons of procrastination among university students.
• Students need to do works according to tasks priority and structured their time.
• Be self-motivated and avoid bad attitude.
• Try a different study strategies to understand the tasks given to them
• University students must avoid procrastination in order to perform better in their academic studies.

Topic: Discuss Factors of Procrastination among University Students

Consistency and continuity of procrastinating tendency may become the behavioral trait of individuals particularly, university students (Hussain & Sultan, 2010). The best definition for procrastination is the delaying of a task that was originally planned despite expecting to be worse off for the delay (Van Eerde, 2003). This action is may be intentional, incidental or habitual but it affect the learning and achievement of university students. Procrastination will slows down the performance of students in the way of being lazy, careless, passive and irresponsible towards their works. There are several reasons of procrastination and this essay will discuss the common factors that leading to procrastination among university students.