Academic Procrastination Attitudes of Adolescents, Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Perfectionism Levels

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between perfectionism and academic procrastination in adolescents' academic self-efficacy. The sample of this research consists of 383 female and 219 male students studying in a high school in the Ilkadim district of Samsun province. The academic procrastination scale, child and adolescent perfectionism scale, self-efficacy scale for children and personal information form were used in this research. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis, regression, multiple regression analysis, t-test, one way variance analysis (ANOVA) tests were applied to the data of research. The research data was analyzed using SPSS. There was a moderately significant relationship between the academic procrastination of adolescents and academic self-efficacy in the negative direction, a significant correlation was found between academic procrastination with the self-directed subdimension from perfectionism negatively. Academic self-efficacy and perfectionism of adolescents were found to be a significant predictor of academic procrastination academic procrastination of adolescent and academic self-efficacy beliefs differ significantly according to gender but does not significantly differ according to the class level. The social originated subdimension from the level of perfectionism of adolescents differs significantly according to class level and gender, the self directed subdimension does not differ significantly.