Philippine E-Journals

Development of an Academic Procrastination Scale

Romel A. Morales

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

This study evaluated the factor structure and internal consistency of a new academic procrastination measure employing both the adaptive and maladaptive aspects of procrastination. Two hundred fifty college students responded to a 150-item initial instrument. Factor analysis using oblique rotation revealed three subscales: Structured Procrastination, Unstructured Procrastination, and Non-Procrastination. Confirmatory Factor Analysis resulted to a new 65-item academic procrastination scale that could distinguish structured procrastination with desirable outcomes from unstructured procrastination with undesirable outcomes. The three subscales showed good internal consistency reliabilities with structured procrastination getting a reliability coefficient of α= 0.928, unstructured procrastination α= 0.914, and non-procrastination α= 0.792. A significant relationship was also found between structured procrastination and unstructured procrastination (r = .346, p <.001), which illustrated the convergent and discriminant validity of the constructs. The new academic procrastination measure had the potential to be adopted in any academic settings and could be used to investigate behavioral factors related to academic achievement’s antecedents and consequences.