The Problem of Academic Procrastination
Sultan Alqahtani
Academic procrastination has quite often been a significant reason behind poor academic performance mostly among students who are academically competent which is showed in a study done by Onwuegbuzie and Jiao (2000), where 95% of students take part in academic procrastination in a school level while around 61% hesitate at a graduate level. Nevertheless students realizing that procrastination in academics leads to poor performance, students rarely attempt overcome postponing and rather state that the weight to perform allows them to finish the assignments. Procrastination comprises of the purposeful postponement of a planned game plan, nonetheless an attention to negative results (Steel, 2007). In this …show more content…
All students every now and then need enthusiasm for a course, be that as it may, not these students delay in considering or finishing assignments. In the event that your regular hobbies are not fortified by the course content, one answer for procrastination may be to "take care of business" (i.e., basically keep on going to class and do the allocated work on time). This will give you more time free of guilt to do those things that are all the more interesting to you. Obviously, it won 't as a matter of course make the class or task fascinating, however in any event you won 't cloud the "great times" with stress. Lack of inspiration is a regularly given explanation behind not taking care of any boring task. Most procrastinators trust that something is not right with them on the off chance that they do not feel inspired to start an assignment, this just is not genuine. What number of people do you imagine feel encouraged and invigorated by the possibility of raking leaves, or changing the oil in the auto, or doing assessments? These assignments are frequently seen as upsetting and not exactly energizing (Solomon and Rothblum,
Sultan Alqahtani
Academic procrastination has quite often been a significant reason behind poor academic performance mostly among students who are academically competent which is showed in a study done by Onwuegbuzie and Jiao (2000), where 95% of students take part in academic procrastination in a school level while around 61% hesitate at a graduate level. Nevertheless students realizing that procrastination in academics leads to poor performance, students rarely attempt overcome postponing and rather state that the weight to perform allows them to finish the assignments. Procrastination comprises of the purposeful postponement of a planned game plan, nonetheless an attention to negative results (Steel, 2007). In this …show more content…
All students every now and then need enthusiasm for a course, be that as it may, not these students delay in considering or finishing assignments. In the event that your regular hobbies are not fortified by the course content, one answer for procrastination may be to "take care of business" (i.e., basically keep on going to class and do the allocated work on time). This will give you more time free of guilt to do those things that are all the more interesting to you. Obviously, it won 't as a matter of course make the class or task fascinating, however in any event you won 't cloud the "great times" with stress. Lack of inspiration is a regularly given explanation behind not taking care of any boring task. Most procrastinators trust that something is not right with them on the off chance that they do not feel inspired to start an assignment, this just is not genuine. What number of people do you imagine feel encouraged and invigorated by the possibility of raking leaves, or changing the oil in the auto, or doing assessments? These assignments are frequently seen as upsetting and not exactly energizing (Solomon and Rothblum,