Academic procrastination: associations with personal, school, and family variables.

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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.

Author information

Author/s: Rosário, Pedro (P); Costa, Marta (M); Núñez, José Carlos (JC); González-Pienda, Julio (J); Solano, Paula (P); Valle, Antonio (A);

Affiliation: Universidade do Minho, Departamento de Psicología, Braga, Portugal. prosario(-atsign-)iep.uminho.p

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: The Spanish journal of psychology (Span J Psychol), published in Spain. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-May; vol 12 (issue 1) : pp 118-27

Dates: Created 2009/05/29; Completed 2009/06/19;

PMID: 19476225, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 6/19/2009, IMS Date: 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00)

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