Procrastination: Pathology in Students

One of the problems that human beings and students and university students are faced with isprocrastination in doing tasks and duties. It is centuries that procrastination meaning postponing the taskof today to tomorrow is problematic. More attention is been paid to this phenomenon and its emergenceand treatment in recent years. In psychology perspective, procrastination is postponing a task which wehave decided to do it. This undesirable and faulty behavior is changed to become a personalcharacteristic of the person. The common form of procrastination of learners is at the beginning of thetask, so they have to work very hard to do finish it on time. Since procrastination is very widespreadamong students and university students, it is effective on their different educational aspects, health andfuture occupation. Therefore, procrastination in students and university students is been studied in thisstudy.

Keywords:

Procrastination , Academic Performance , Personality , Student