Self-Concept and Its Relationship with Academic Procrastination Among the Secondary Stage Students at Ajloun Governorate "Evaluation Study"

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the level of prevalence of the academic procrastination phenomenon among the secondary stage students at Ajloun Governorate center, and to reveal the differences between the male and female students from the scientific and literary streams, in addition to identifying the relationship between the self-concept and academic procrastination among the study sample, and the extent to which the self- concept explains the variance in the academic procrastination behavior. The population of the study consisted of (3445) male and female secondary stage students at Ajloun Directorate of Education, the study sample was (344) male and female students. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers used two scales: self- concept scale developed by El-Ghamdi (2009), and academic procrastination scale developed by Tamimi (2012) after checking their reliability and validity. The results of the study showed that there is prevalence of academic procrastination and to a medium degree, and the level of self-concept in the research sample was medium. In addition to the absence of statistical significance differences in the degree of academic procrastination due to gender variable. As well as the existence of statistical significant differences in the degree of academic procrastination due to the specialization variable and the differences were in favor of (scientific specialization) with a mean of (2.18). Finally, the results showed a statistically significant relationship between self-concept and academic procrastination.

Keywords: Academic procrastination, Self- concept, Secondary Stage