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| Published: December 31, 2020
Influence of emotional intelligence and level of education on academic procrastination among undergraduate and postgraduate students
Student, Masters in Psychology, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research (IIPR), Bengaluru, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research (IIPR), Bengaluru, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.162/20200804
DOI: 10.25215/0804.162
ABSTRACT
Procrastination is a rampant problem faced by a significant proportion of the student population and has adverse effects on academic achievement and various life outcomes. A deeper understanding of procrastination behaviours suggests toward several emotional correlates as factors underlying procrastination tendencies as opposed to the commonly held notions which explain procrastination as failures surrounding self-discipline and time management. The aim of the current study was to understand the influence of emotional intelligence on academic procrastination among undergraduate and postgraduate students. The study was conducted on 365 female undergraduate and postgraduate students. Data was gathered using the ‘Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale’ and the ‘Academic Procrastination Scale’. Two-Way ANOVA was run on the scores obtained to study the influence of emotional intelligence and level of education on academic procrastination. Consistent with some previous findings, the findings of the current study suggest that emotional intelligence has a significant influence on academic procrastination among students. However, no significant differences in the influence were found between the two groups implying that the influence of emotional intelligence on academic procrastination does not depend on the level of education.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Sureka V. & Nethravathi. R.
Received: November 18, 2020; Revision Received: December 24, 2020; Accepted: December 31, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.162/20200804
10.25215/0804.162
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 4, October-December, 2020