• Syed Zafar Sultan Rizvi
• Sana Fatima
• Bhabana Sharma

Now a day’s students experience many types of problems which may be cause of personality type, behavioral, genetic or environmental factors. Procrastination in academics is most prevalent problem it may because of lack of Optimism, self-compassion or other confounding factors. Procrastination causes low grades, credits scores in semesters and delays assignments which further cause the negative consequences. Procrastination leads to many other problems like anxiety, low motivation and other behavioral problems. While, Self-compassion and Optimism are very essential for moral growth and for self-motivational reason. Professional course students are more prone to suffer stress, workload and pending assignments due to their level of difficulties and unable to comprehend properly. Therefore, this research is conducted to explore the effect of Optimism, self-compassion and procrastination negative consequences on professional students (Engineering and Management) Academic performance. Tools–Procrastination Negative Consequences scale (M Haghbin& Timothy A. Pychyl, 2015), SelfCompassion Scale (Raes, F., Pommier, E., Neff, K.D., and Gucht, D.V, 2010) and Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R)Carver, C. S., Scheier, M. F., & Segerstrom, S. C. (2010). Sample size is 70 Professional course students. Pearson moment Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis(stepwise) was used.

Procrastination Negative Consequences, Academic performance, Self-compassion, Optimism.

"EXPLORING THE EFFECT’S OF OPTIMISM, SELF-COMPASSION, AND PROCRASTINATION NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PROFESSIONAL COLLEGE STUDENTS.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.216-222, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907784.pdf

"EXPLORING THE EFFECT’S OF OPTIMISM, SELF-COMPASSION, AND PROCRASTINATION NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PROFESSIONAL COLLEGE STUDENTS.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp216-222, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907784.pdf