Don't say lazy: academic procrastination between male and female college students.

Abstract

This study sought to determine the significance of academic procrastination to a college student’s level of performance in academics. Three hundred and ninety-five (395) college students (regardless of the number of males and females) from various schools in the City of Manila were each asked to answer a 35-item questionnaire in order to get the necessary data for the study. Then key informant respondents were gathered shortly thereafter. Proper encoding, meticulous statistical measures and rigorous interpretations were done and throughout the course of the study, it is seen that academic procrastination could highly affect one’s self-efficacy, or performance, in their scholastic endeavor. Based on the results, majority of the respondents tend to delay academic responsibilities and tasks and their reason behind doing it is the unpleasurable feeling it brings as they are in the process of doing it, so they would rather choose to do something apart from it while its deadline is still far. Once they realized that they have to start finishing any academic work before their time runs out, they often end up achieving unsatisfactory and substandard results, which gives a smaller possibility of the existence of "active procrastinators" --procrastinators who purposively manages time based on his immediate/urgent/chosen activities, gets excited with all the pressure of cramming things at the last minute, and does all of the work effectively. Despite the fact that they frequently choose another activities to replace their academic work for them to feel good instead of being all stressed out instantly, almost three-fourths of the total respondents stated that academic procrastination is something that they are having trouble with, and is a very serious matter for them.