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Academic Procrastination Behavior in University Students: Can Some Individual and Environmental Variables be a Factor?
Authors: Özge KINIK, Hatice ODACI
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The purpose of the present study was to evaluate academic procrastination behaviors of university students based on some individual variables such as gender, whether to use alcohol and smoking, whether to have a mobile phone and personal computer with internet access, the period of daily Internet use, the purpose of internet use, whether to choose the department willingly and satisfaction of the present department and some environmental variables faculty, grade, accommodation, whether to have internet access in accommodation. The study group consisted of 615 (71.3%) female, 242 (28.1%) male, and 5 (.6%) no-gender-stated university students who studied at a state university in north-eastern Turkey. The age of the students in the study group ranged from 17 to 40, and the mean of ages was 20.88 (Df: 2.40). The data of the study were collected with a Personal Information Form and Academic Procrastination Scale prepared by the researchers. The study concluded that academic procrastination behaviors of university students differentiated depending on the use of alcohol and smoking, whether to choose their department willingly, the satisfaction of the department, the period of daily Internet use and the purpose of internet use; however, there were not significant differences between those behaviors and gender, faculty, grade, accommodation, whether to have internet access in accommodation and whether to have a mobile phone and personal computer with internet access. The findings were discussed in the light of the literature. It is thought that the results of the study are important for determining some individual and environmental variables that affect academic procrastination behaviors of university students, and they may be a guide for field researchers.