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Volume 17, Issue 70 (12-2018)                   Journal of Psychological Science 2018, 17(70): 673-682 | Back to browse issues page

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Tavoshi M, Borjali A, Kiamanesh A. (2018). Providing a model for predicting academic procrastination based on multidimensional perfectionism and positive and negative effects in school students. Journal of Psychological Science. 17(70), 673-682.
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PhD student of general psychology, Islamic Azad University, Research and Science branch, Tehran, Iran , m.tavoshi@yahoo.com
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Background: Negative affect makes one completely ignore his homework and commit procrastination. Positive affect increases useful indices of thinking and reducing procrastination. Furthermore some researches indicate that there is relationship between all kinds of perfectionism and academic procrastination. Aims: The objective of present research is review the relation of several variables including negative and positive affect and multidimensional in the format of a model with academic procrastination. Method: The design of present research is descriptive from correlation type. Statistical population of research includes all female high school students in districts 2, 4, and 8 of Tehran in academic year 2016-17. The sample of present research included 400 students selected by multistage sampling method. The sample members answered Solomon & Rothblum academic procrastination (1984), Pintrich and Digroot self-regulated learning strategies (1990) and Hewitt and Flett multi-dimensional perfectionism (1991) questionnaires. In order to analyze data path analysis was used. Results: Results indicated the fitness of model with data and existence of relationship between positive and negative effects and all kinds of perfectionism with academic procrastination. Standard correlation of the relation between positive affect and academic procrastination was equal to -0.361, the relation between negative affect and academic procrastination was equal to 0.440, the relation between self-oriented perfectionism and academic procrastination was equal to -0.31, the relation between other- oriented and academic procrastination was equal to 0.285; and all these correlations were significant (p<0.01). Furthermore standard coefficient related to the relation between society-oriented perfectionism and academic procrastination was equal to 0.114 which was not significant. Lack of significance of the obtained coefficient indicates that society oriented perfectionism may not predict academic procrastination. Conclusions: Positive and negative effects and all kinds of perfectionism in the format of a model may predict academic procrastination of students.             
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Received: 2019/06/4 | Published: 2018/12/15

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