The Correlation Research Between Procrastination And Personality, Academic Performance Of Undergraduates

Sophomore and junior undergraduates from Nanjing normal university and Sichuan normal university were invested to explore the relationship between procrastination and personality, academic performance by self-reported and behavior assessment.This research included:(1) Revised General Procrastination Scale(GPS) and Procrastination Assessment Scale—Students(PASS), and observed the situation of undergraduates' procrastination;(2) Explored the main reasons of undergraduates' procrastination by factor analysis;(3) Analyzed the correlation between personality traits and procrastination by QZPS;(4) Observed the learning of undergraduates in the preparation of CET-6 to explore the influence of procrastination on academic performance.It was found that:(1) In all, undergraduates didn't procrastinate frequently in daily life or academic task. However, there were some students wanted to change their procrastination behavior;(2) Undergraduates'procrastination didn't have significant differences on gender. Older undergraduates reported less procrastination. Compared with other majors, science students reported more procrastination frequents;(3) It was found that the reasons of procrastination were fear of failure, rebellion, aversiveness of task, dependency, lack of assertion, time management and fear of success by factor analysis, and there were differences among gender, age and major.(4) Most personality traits in the seven-factor structure had high correlations with procrastination. And in the linear regression, behavior styles and extroversion of seven personality traits entered the most appropriate regression equation. And the research found that hardiness, scrupulous, warmth, calm and active influenced general procrastination of undergraduates. Scrupulous, active and indifferent had great influence on academic procrastination;(5)When CET-6 approached, undergraduates reported stable planned learning and more actual learning behavior. And compared with non-procrastinators, procrastinators reported less planned and actual learning behavior, and higher level of worried;(6)Compared with self-reported procrastination, the actual procrastination behavior could anticipate the proformance of CET-6, and general procrastination could anticipate final examation.That was to say, if he/she procrastinate frequently, he/she could had bad academic performance.