Academic procrastination among prospective teachers in relation to certain demographic variables

Abstract

The act of procrastination impedes an individual’s capacity to effectively finish tasks within the allotted time. A person who tends to procrastinate consistently seeks to postpone the task at hand. Primarily the study intends to ascertain the occurrence of procrastination and how it impacts certain demographic factors (gender, locality, faculty, type of institution and type of family) amongst prospective teachers of Aligarh district. The survey involved 150 aspiring teachers, comprising 26 males and 124 females, who were selected from different teacher training institutes of Aligarh district. Academic Procrastination Scale (APS- GSBL) by Dr. Savita Gupta & Liyaqat Bashir, served as the instrument for data collection. Descriptive statistics, such as measures of central tendency (mean), variability (standard deviation), and percentages, were employed to analyze the data. Additionally, inferential statistics, including t-tests and ANOVA, were utilized for further analysis. Analysis revealed no statistically relevant differences in procrastination between male and female prospective teachers. Though prospective teachers from government and private institutions varied significantly in the level of academic procrastination.