REDUCING ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION AMONG STUDENTS

With the advancement of technologies nowadays, people are getting lazier

than what they used to be before modernization of technologies. The evidence of this problem
is clearly shown by student today, especially universities students. Generally, students who
are lazy will also delay their work. One of the studies recorded that approximately 50% of
students admit that they tends to delay or procrastinate more on academic works (Ferrari,
Johnson & McCown, 1995). Procrastination is an endemic problem (Lee, 2005, p5) that
needed to be solved among students. Steels (2007) define procrastination as to voluntarily
delay an intended course of action (as cited in Grunschel, Patrzek & Fries, 2013, p841).
According to Lively (1999), procrastination is the failure to take action to make something
happen. You know what to do, but you dont do it. (p7). Overall, procrastination is a
voluntarily behavioural issue which can affect students life negatively.
Academic procrastination occurs due to several reasons. Based on of the studies, it
has been found that the more industrialized a society, the more salient the construct of
procrastination becomes (Ferrari, Johnson &McCown, 1995, p4). Based on the study, we
can conclude that people will procrastinate more as the industry progress further.
Furthermore, Grunschel, Patrzek & Fries (2013) categorized these reasons into two which is
internal reasons and external reasons. Examples of internal reasons are mental and physical
states, cognitive behaviour, personal believe, personality and much more. While, external
reasons are individual working condition, lecturers characteristics and institutional
conditions. Next, Lee (2005) states that procrastination is due to lack of motivation. He
further states that high procrastinators were more likely to be concerned with what others
may have been thinking of them, how they were presenting themselves, and about their
performance during the learning process (Lee, 2005, p13).
Due to procrastination students have to encounter lots of consequences. Lee (2005)
found out that procrastination can lead to low level of performance in their overall college
works. Grunschel et al. (2013) added that procrastination can cause problems relating to
sleep, failure in time management and much more. Thus, lots of studies have been made to
find solutions to apprehend this problem. This paper will discuss the solution to resolve
procrastination among students from various perspective.