Predictors of Academic Procrastination in Asian International College Students

Lowinger, Robert Jay; Kuo, Ben C. H.; Song, Hak Jun; Mahadevan, Lakshmi; Kim, Eun Young; Liao, Kelly Yu-Hsin; Chang, Catherine Y.; Kwon, Kyong-Ah; Han, Suejung

doi:10.1080/19496591.2016.1110036

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“…For example, Wester et al () found that the use of CC was related to less restrictive emotionality, a form of stress stemming from male gender conflict, among Chinese Canadian male adolescents. Similarly, Lowinger et al () found that the use of CC predicted lower levels of academic procrastination, a behavioural manifestation of underlying AS, among Asian international students in the US. The current findings are also consistent with the hypothesised beneficial nature of EC (as a form of adaptive problem‐solving coping) and the maladaptive quality of AC (as a form of unproductive emotion‐focused coping).…”

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“…On the basis of previous research involving the CCCS (e.g. Lowinger et al, ; Wester, Kuo & Vogel, ), we hypothesised that undergraduate participants' AS would be mitigated by their use of CC and EC (see Figure ). As such, negative paths/relationships between AS and the two types of coping behaviours were expected.…”

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“…Interestingly, even though the path between CC and psychological distress was negative and non‐significant, CC was positively related to the participants' level of intrinsic spirituality. In another recent study using the CCCS, Lowinger et al () found that CC was a negative predictor and AC was a positive predictor of academic procrastination in a sample of Asian international students in the USA.…”

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The mediating role of cultural coping behaviours on the relationships between academic stress and positive psychosocial well‐being outcomes

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While culture's effect on the coping process has long been acknowledged in the stress-coping literature conceptually, empirical evidence and attempts to discern the specific relationship between culture and coping remain very scarce. Against this backdrop, the present study applied the Cultural Transactional Theory (Chun, Moos, & Cronkite, 2006) to examine the mediating role of cultural coping behaviours (Collective, Engagement and Avoidance Coping) on the relationship between academic stress (AS) and two positive psychosocial well-being outcome measures: Collective Self-esteem (CSE) and Subjective Well-being (SWB). Responses from a sample of undergraduate students in Canada (N = 328) were analysed to test a theory-driven, hypothesised model of coping using structural equation modelling (SEM). As hypothesised, the SEM results showed that: (a) the proposed cultural coping model fit the data well; (b) Engagement Coping and Collective Coping partially mediated the association between AS and the outcomes and (c) the path relationships among the constructs were in the hypothesised directions. A set of preliminary exploratory analyses indicated that Collective Coping was most strongly endorsed by the African/Black and the Middle Eastern cultural groups as compared to other ethnic groups. Implications of the study's findings for future research and practice concerning culture, stress, and coping are discussed.

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“…Over the years, procrastination was studied mostly in young college students attending academic settings, and was suggested to be strongly associated with a self-regulation failure in face of temptations (Steel, 2007 ). Further, it was suggested to be a mechanism to avoid difficult tasks, academic failure, anxiety provoking situations as well as a short-term mood-regulation strategy, the inability to delay gratification, a time management problem or a “last-minute” thrill experience (Rice et al, 2012 ; Grunschel et al, 2013 , 2016 ; Sirois and Pychyl, 2013 ; Dunn, 2014 ; Malatincová, 2015 ; Lowinger et al, 2016 ).…”

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General and Life-Domain Procrastination in Highly Educated Adults in Israel

Hen

Goroshit

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Procrastination is usually perceived as a general behavioral tendency, and was studied mostly in college students in academic settings. Recently there is a growing body of literature to support the study of procrastination in older adults and in different life-domains. Based on these advances in the literature, the present study examined procrastination in 430 highly educated adults in Israel. Findings showed that respondents reported significantly higher procrastination in maintaining health behaviors and spending leisure time rather in other life-domains. Forty percent of participants reported high procrastination in health behaviors, while only 9.5% reported this level of procrastination in parenting and 1% in the general tendency to procrastinate. Further findings suggested that 25% of respondents reported high procrastination in four or more life-domains, and 40%—in one to three life-domains. The general tendency to procrastinate was moderately associated with procrastination in finance, education, and career life-domains and weekly with other life-domains. Fourteen percent of participants reported that procrastination influenced their life the most in health behaviors, 12% in career and education and 11% in romance and family life. These initial findings contribute to the overall perspective of life-domain specificity of procrastination in adults, and emphasize the importance to further study and develop a life-span perspective.

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“…In contrast, students from private higher education institutions (HEIs) may have access to the Internet through home and/or mobile data subscription, and are, therefore, not solely dependent on the school’s network for Internet access (Dumpit and Hernandez, 2017). Academic procrastination among Chinese international students has been considered as one possible consequence of stress and difficulty resulting from the acculturation and cultural adjustment process (Lowinger et al (2014), as cited in Lowinger et al, 2016). In today’s era of massive use of the Internet of things, librarians are expected to ensure the maximum effective use of electronic databases as vital and accurate sources of information as well as function, promote activities on the internet that could assist students in meeting the information demands of their academic study.…”

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The moderating effects of information overload and academic procrastination on the information avoidance behavior among Filipino undergraduate thesis writers

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Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Information avoidance is a behavior that could either prevent or delay consumption of information. While information avoidance has been documented in various fields of interest, its overall dynamics in the context of library and information science remains a research blankspot. The overall intent of this paper is to develop a model that examines the moderating effect of information overload and academic procrastination on the information avoidance behavior among Filipino undergraduate thesis writers. Capitalizing on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) design, a total of 215 Filipino undergraduate thesis writers participated in the study. A multi-aspect questionnaire was used to measure the following variables: information overload, academic procrastination and information avoidance. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Results show that when students have a positive attitude towards reading, the more likely they are to employ better reading strategies and the less likely they are to exhibit information avoidance. On the other hand, the more reading strategies are used, the lower is information avoidance. Additionally, the tendency to procrastinate has less effect on the relationship between reading strategies and information avoidance and the tendency to procrastinate and acquire excessive information has less effect on the relationship between reading attitudes and information avoidance. Implications for university settings are also discussed in this paper.

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Predictors of Academic Procrastination in Asian International College Students

Cited by 28 publications

References 41 publications

The mediating role of cultural coping behaviours on the relationships between academic stress and positive psychosocial well‐being outcomes

The mediating role of cultural coping behaviours on the relationships between academic stress and positive psychosocial well‐being outcomes

General and Life-Domain Procrastination in Highly Educated Adults in Israel

The moderating effects of information overload and academic procrastination on the information avoidance behavior among Filipino undergraduate thesis writers

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