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Academic Procrastination: Associations with Personal, School, and Family Variables

2009; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1138741600001530

1988-2904

Pedro Rosário, Marta Costa, José Carlos Núñez Pérez, Júlio António González-Pienda, Paula Solano, António Valle,

Education, Achievement, and Giftedness

Procrastination is a common behavior, mainly in school settings. Only a few studies have analyzed the associations of academic procrastination with students' personal and family variables. In the present work, we analyzed the impact of socio-personal variables (e.g., parents' education, number of siblings, school grade level, and underachievement) on students' academic procrastination profiles. Two independent samples of 580 and 809 seventh to ninth graders, students attending the last three years of Portuguese Compulsory Education, have been taken. The findings, similar in both studies, reveal that procrastination decreases when the parents' education is higher, but it increases along with the number of siblings, the grade level, and the underachievement. The results are discussed in view of the findings of previous research. The implications for educational practice are also analyzed.