Students' procrastination and its relationship withacademic performance in the academic immigrationprocess

Academic migration has a long process that often confronts students in this direction withchallenges that have a negative impact on their success. The purpose of the present study wasto examine academic procrastination and its relationship with academic performance among۷۴ university students (n=۳۷ male, n=۳۷ female). The research method of the present studywas descriptive-correlational. Data was collected by means of the Tuckman ProcrastinationScale (TPS) and GPA was measured based on a self-reported question. Also, gender wasconsidered in this study. Data analysis was performed by Pearson correlation and independentT- test using SPSS software version ۲۲. After analyzing the data, it was found that students inapply process show higher level of procrastination and Academic procrastination had asignificant correlation with gender (p=۰. ۰۰۳) and academic performance (p=۰. ۰۰۱). Findingsindicated that academic procrastination was significantly correlated with academicperformance. Gender variable had significant impact on academic procrastination tendencyand Women suffer more from academic procrastination than men.

Keywords:

procrastination , Academic Performance , students , immigration