• Dr. Giselle Ann Dsouza

Among the several factors responsible for student tardiness in submission of school assignments and completion of tasks, Academic Procrastination ranks highest. Though the exact underlying reason for this ‘academic disease’ remains unknown, it could well range from a course of habit on the one hand, to a striving for perfection on the other, with a myriad other causes in between. Classroom teachers are constantly grappling with the insurmountable challenge of getting students to comply with deadlines prescribed for handing in school work. The present study was a multi-variate investigation of Academic Procrastination in Middle and High School students on the basis of 3 categories of factors namely, Personal, Social and Lifestyle. The sample comprised of 405 students of a private aided English-medium State Board School in Mumbai. The paper attempts to compare and identify the most predominant class of factors responsible for Academic Procrastination in both groups. Results revealed that the vast majority of students in both school sections attributed their procrastination to Lifestyle Factors followed by Personal Factors, thus indicating the pressing need to inculcate healthy study habits in students from an early age, so that time management gets automatically woven into their repertoire of skills. Partial correlation analysis was conducted to assess which variables exhibited the strongest interrelationship in Academic Procrastination. Findings revealed that Personal Factors coupled with Lifestyle Factors, followed by a combination of Personal Factors with Social Factors, exhibited the highest association with Academic Procrastination. This highlights the importance of Personal Factors, indicating the need for students to be self-driven and self-motivated to avoid delays in task completion.

Academic Procrastination, Personal Factors, Social Factors, Lifestyle Factors, Middle School, High School

"Dealing with Delay: Keeping Academic Procrastination at Bay", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no.g490-g496, March-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303675.pdf

"Dealing with Delay: Keeping Academic Procrastination at Bay", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no. ppg490-g496, March-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303675.pdf