Investigating the relationship between the three components of motivational beliefs and family performance with academic procrastination in second year high school students of Borkhar region

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Education Borkhar city, Isfahan, Iran

2 Assistant professor, Department of educational Counseling and social work, Faizul Islam Khomeinishahr Institute of Higher Education, Isfahan, Iran

3 Master of General Psychology, Department of Education District 6, Isfahan, Iran

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The aim of the present research is investigating the relationship between the three components of motivational beliefs (self-efficacy, internal valuation and test anxiety) and family performance with academic procrastination in second year high school students of Borkhar region. The design of the research is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population includes all includes all the male and female secondary school students of Borkhar region, who studied in the academic year of 1401-402. From this population, 384 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Then the questionnaires of motivational strategies, measuring family performance and academic procrastination were implemented on them as a group. The findings of the research were analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficient, independent t-test and regression analysis. The results of regression analysis showed that motivational beliefs and family performance can predict academic procrastination in students. Also, the results of this research showed that the components of self-efficacy (r = -0.20) and internal valuation (r = -0.18) have a negative and significant relationship with students' academic procrastination; While the relationship between the anxiety component and academic procrastination is not significant (p = 0.14). The relationship between family performance and academic procrastination (r = 0.20) in students was also significant (p < 0.01). According to these results, the three components of motivational beliefs and family performance play an important role in the academic procrastination of second course high school students. 

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