Corona Makes Me a Procrastinator: Correlates Personality in Predicting Procrastination

Abstract

The emergence of the coronavirus or covid-19 caused shocks throughout the world, both from a social, economic, and educational perspective. One way to avoid the spread of covid-19 was by implementing school for home. Procrastination can occur in students who underwent school at home because the control of the learning environment and teacher control was lacking. For this reason, the role of personality supported in predicting whether students will procrastinate during school for home. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of personality in procrastination. 174 respondents (40 men and 134 women) who were currently undergoing school at home were used in this study. The instruments used were the Uni Procastination Scale and the Big Five Inventory. Data analysis used multiple regression. Respondents who admitted to procrastination after undergoing school at home were only M = 10.6. The results of the data analysis did not support the research hypothesis, which showed that there was no personality role for procrastination. the role of social support, especially parents, student motivation, and selfregulated learning to consider when students underwent school for home.

Self-Control and Procrastination during the Covid-19 Pandemic

“…Procrastination related to psychological well-being where procrastinators were found to have low psychological well-being [16], low self-efficacy [13] and external locus of control [14] where they assumed that the procrastination they experienced was due to external factors, not because of themselves. Other studies have found that personality has a role in procrastination [12], although Sarirah's findings suggest otherwise [12] Procrastination is a term that refers to a delay that is done intentionally by an individual towards a task or work and the individual knows that the delay can have a negative impact [9]. Procrastination is often found in students.…”