The Predictive Ability of Cognitive Motivation, Optimism and Pessimism of Academic Procrastination

Abstract

The study aimed for revealing the cognitive motivation, and where the study sample leads to optimism and pessimism, and it aimed for showing the female students’, at Prince Sattam Bin Abdul-Aziz University, ability of cognitive motivation, optimism, and pessimism of academic procrastination. The study sample consisted of 421 students from the faculty of education, who had been chosen by the available way. For achieving the study goals, the two researchers improved the scales of the cognitive motivation and the academic procrastination; they also extracted their sincerity and constancy indications.

In addition, the study results indicated that the cognitive motivation level was high, and that sample’s individuals tended to be more optimistic than pessimistic. Also, it showed that the cognitive motivation is more influential in predicting the academic procrastination. Hence, the regression coefficient reached (0.240), which is a statistical function. On the other hand, optimism’s and pessimism’s ability of predicting the academic procrastination took the second position with a regression coefficient of (0.135). Accordingly, the study recommended to study the academic procrastination and its relation to other variables, and to study it in different environment rather than the university one. Moreover, the study recommended to create awareness programs and guidance publications in order to reduce the phenomenon of the academic procrastination as much as possible. And, for optimism and pessimism, the study recommended to construct educational centers for the youth, males and female, that improves their skills and abilities, and that connect them to the society to communicate with it in order to break their solitude, which causes pessimism.

Key Words: Cognitive Motivation, Optimism and Pessimism, Academic procrastination.