The Research On Comparing Different Procrastination Types Among College Students

This research adopts Chu and Choi(2005)’s division for academic procrastination, which is divided into active procrastination and passive procrastination according to its character. Passive procrastinators are paralyzed by their indecision to act and fail to complete tasks on time. In contrast, active procrastination is a way of adaptive learning compared to passive procrastination. Although active procrastinators procrastinate to the same degree as passive procrastinators, they have significant difference in terms of control of time, self-efficacy belief, and academic performance.This research aims to discuss the differences between passive procrastinators, active procrastinators and non-procrastinators in terms of academic self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, academic anxiety, learning strategies and academic performance from the perspective of self-regulated learning.this research also deals with the relationships between the two types of procrastination and academic self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, academic anxiety and learning strategies. Finally, some advice are given to overcome procrastination.This study mainly adopts questionnaire method to get information from 5 universities’ undergraduates, including Nanjing University, Nanjing Normal University,Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing Institute of Technology and Nanjing Xiaozhuang University.896 questionnaires are given out and the objects are balanced in gender, subjects and grades. With SPSS 16.0 statistical analysis, only 14.8% college students are not procrastinators, procrastination phenomenon exists in nearly 85% of college students. Among procrastinators, active procrastination and passive procrastination are 44.9% and 40.3%.Through the analysis, the results show that:1.Procrastination degree shows no significant difference in gender, subjects, grades and students’ native places. Students from 985 universities have significant higher procrastination degree than students from 211 universities and common universities. Ordinary students procrastinate significant more than students’ leaders.2.Passive procrastination and active procrastination have no significant difference in gender, subjects, grades, students’ native places and school level.3.There are significant differences for active procrastinators and passive procrastinators on academic self-efficacy, extrinsic goal, academic anxiety, learning strategies, self-regulated learning and academic performance. There is no difference on intrinsic goal between active and passive procrastinators.4.There are significant differences for active procrastinators and nonprocrastinators on academic self-efficacy, intrinsic goal, extrinsic goal, learning strategies, self-regulated learning and academic performance. There is no difference on academic anxiety between active procrastinators and nonprocrastinators.5.There is significant correlation between passive procrastination and academic self-efficacy, intrinsic goal, learning strategies, self-regulated learning, except extrinsic goal.6.There is significant correlation between active procrastination and academic self-efficacy, intrinsic goal and academic anxiety. There is no significant correlation between active procrastination and extrinsic goal, learning strategies and self-regulated learning.Finally, from a self-regulated learning perspective, some advice are given to overcome procrastination combined with the survey results.