On the Relationship between Perfectionism and College Students’ Academic Procrastination: The Moderating Role of Causality Orientations

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10.2991/iceiss-18.2018.78How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Perfectionism; Causality Orientation; Academic Procrastination

Abstract

Based on Self-determination Theory (SDT), this study attempted to explore the relationship between perfectionism and college students’ academic procrastination as well as moderating role of causality orientations. A total of 660 undergraduates in three majors from two universities in Jinan, Shandong province participated in the questionnaire survey. The results indicated that: (1) positive perfectionism was significantly negatively correlated with academic procrastination while negative perfectionism was significantly positively correlated with procrastination; (2) controlled orientation and impersonal orientation were all significantly positively correlated with academic procrastination; (3) controlled orientation moderated the relationship between negative perfectionism and college students’ academic procrastination: negative perfectionism can’t predict academic procrastination when controlled orientation was low; negative perfectionism can’t predict academic procrastination when controlled orientation was high; and (4) impersonal orientation moderated the relationship between negative perfectionism and college students’ academic procrastination: negative perfectionism can’t predict academic procrastination when impersonal orientation was low; negative perfectionism significantly positively predicted academic procrastination when impersonal orientation was high.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dongchun Zhu
AU  - Guirong Liu
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DA  - 2018/12
TI  - On the Relationship between Perfectionism and College Students’ Academic Procrastination: The Moderating Role of Causality Orientations
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science (ICEISS 2018)
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EP  - 323
SN  - 2352-5398
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