Academic Procrastination, Academic Stress, and Achievement Motivation During Online Classes Among University Students

Abstract

Present study was aimed to find out the relationship between academic procrastination, academic stress, and achievement motivation during online classes among university students. Moreover, influential effects of demographic variables such as age, gender, study disciplines, monthly income, number of siblings, number of siblings who are taking online classes and number of devices at home have been evaluated. In order to fulfill the requirement of present study, data of 300 university students including 181 men and 119 women, with age range of 18-38 years (M = 22.49; SD = 2.68) were collected from different universities. Academic Procrastination Scale by Tuckman (1991), Academic Stress Scale (Kohn & Frazer, 1986), and Achievement Motivation Inventory Scale (Muthee & Thomas, 2009) were used to study variables. Results showed significant positive relationship between academic procrastination and academic stress, significant negative relationship between academic procrastination and achievement motivation and significant negative relationship between academic stress and achievement motivation. The present study also showed that age and grade were found to be significant predictors of achievement motivation. Academic procrastination predicts achievement motivation in negative direction among university students. The results showed there is a significant gender differences on academic stress which indicates women experience more academic stress as compare to men. ANOVA revealed that there were significant differences among students of different study disciplines and their level of education which indicates that natural science’ students experience more academic stress as compared to biological and social science students. MPhil students were high on achievement motivation as compared to BS and Master’s students. The results help in understanding the academic related issues of student and how to make strategies to avoid procrastination.