The Impact Of Future Time Perspective On Academic Procrastination In Junior High School Students

Academic procrastination has become the main problem faced by contemporary middle school students.The adverse learning consequences and emotional problems caused by procrastination affect students’ learning efficiency.In the process of exploring the factors that cause procrastination,this study introduces three variables:Future Time Perspective(FTP),Time Management Disposition(TMD)and academic self-efficacy,from the emotional,personality and cognitive factors closely related to academic procrastination,and probes into the influence mechanism and relationship model of the four.Then,we used group counseling to intervene students’ TMD and academic self-efficacy to reduce their procrastination level.This study is divided into two parts.In the first study,837 students in three grades of a junior middle school in Hebei Province were investigated on their academic procrastination,FTP,TMD and academic self-efficacy by using Future Time Perspective Scale,Time Management Tendency Scale for Adolescents,Academic Self-efficacy scale and Middle School Students Academic Procrastination Scale.SPSS25.0 and AMOS26.0 were used to analyze and test the data.On the basis of the first study,15 students with high procrastination level were given group psychological intervention once a week for seven times.The main conclusions are as follows:1.There were significant differences in demographic variables in junior middle school students’ academic procrastination,TMD,FTP and academic self-efficacy.2.Academic procrastination was significantly negatively correlated with FTP,TMD,FTP,TMD and academic self-efficacy all positively correlated3.TMD and academic self-efficacy play a chain mediating role in the relationship between FTP and academic procrastination of junior high school students.4.Through group counseling intervention activities,students’ procrastination can be effectively improved.